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Every time I have to redo something she did or correct her, I leave a comment explaining why.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026
It could also have profound consequences for Einstein’s theory of general relativity, which has been proven correct time and time again in the century-plus since he published it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
"They get all their information from movies, songs, from peers, so they're not getting that correct information and this is what is really damaging them," she added.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
The bot shot back: Actually, because she was born in Spain and her original name was Catalina, a C is correct.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Jonah wanted to correct Mr. Reardon just as he’d corrected Chip: birth parents, you mean.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
He corrects himself: “I’m having a riotous time.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
He pauses, then corrects himself: "As fast as possible, of course."
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
“It’s not a romance, it’s a love story,” she immediately corrects him.
From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2026
As the market corrects its math, the quality names should outperform.
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
Ryan corrects his pronunciation of a couple of Hebrew words.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
He wanted to let his daughter, Stella Banderas, and stepchildren Dakota Johnson and Alexander Bauer do what they wanted with their lives so that they would pay attention when he corrected them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
“The Lineman said that they were not new and were like this last year; he was also unsure why they were not corrected when it was inspected,” the investigators wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
Minns corrected himself shortly afterwards, and told the hearing that "Lily's body has been found" and she was deceased.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
But information arrives in fragments: a barcode result here, a recall notice there, a corrected FDA finding, a corporate statement, a congressional inquiry.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
“I don’t know. However long it takes for Scrappy to get corrected, I guess.”
From "Wish" by Barbara O'Connor
Snider notes that the best-performing parts of the AI trade were the places hedge funds added most during the second quarter, and unsurprisingly, these were the sectors correcting most severely in July.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
“I’m his lawyer,” Blanche replied, before correcting himself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
In an ancient form of marking homework, a second person's hand can be seen changing mistakes, "going along and correcting them later and adding breath marks", he said.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
Slaughter is the latest in a string of recent high-court decisions overturning or correcting bad precedents, usually by 6-3 votes—among them Lemon v.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
“To work with us,” she said, correcting me.
From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben
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