wrong
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Whatever class of film I believed I’d be getting after watching other mediocre Tubi Originals in the past, I was so very wrong about.
From Salon • Apr. 5, 2026
When something goes wrong, the necessary skills to intervene may no longer be available.
From Science Daily • Apr. 5, 2026
Once in the late 1950s, while building machinery to record sounds a heart makes, he accidentally used the wrong resistor, but its electrical pulse rate was steady, like a heartbeat.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026
The sisters believe their father did not have a final removal order or a warrant for his arrest and that he was simply at the wrong place at the wrong time.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026
A hope that Brickbane had been wrong, that Clare had not been a terrible, unloved animal who deserved a terrible fate.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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