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Madonna captioned a photo, "If your dance floor feels dead, maybe you're playing the wrong music."
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
If something goes wrong on a trip, I write about it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Bestselling author and famed election and sports projection-model creator Nate Silver reposted the poll on Friday, writing: “This is what’s wrong with Britain.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
OpenAI runs this kind of closed testing routinely, but this time, something went wrong.
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
But then I remember that I didn’t do anything wrong, and I try to focus on that.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
But Ryerse, 51, and others in the Democratic Christian pushback say they are ready to right wrongs.
From Barron's ● Jul. 12, 2026
Time will tell whether this proves to be helpful for the vindication of wrongs from years ago and creation of stable relations in years to come.
From Slate ● Jul. 1, 2026
Often no real wrongs are committed in the first place, but companies settle to avoid a very low probability of extremely large damages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
But what drove the voters I talked to wasn’t a chance to right demographic wrongs.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
The wrongs of Uther and of Cain were wrongs which could have been righted only by the blessing of forgetting them.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
But I’ve no doubt that, like me, many people found comfort in the story’s resolute belief in humankind’s capacity for grace even after someone has greatly wronged us.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026
What I’ve found is that no one is right, and everyone feels wronged no matter what.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 11, 2026
"My daughter was wronged in her lifetime, and now every effort is being made to ensure that she does not get justice even after her death. We will not rest until we get her justice."
From BBC ● May 21, 2026
It’s about how easily grievance turns into permission—how feeling wronged starts to look like a reason to do wrong.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 27, 2026
He sat behind the wheel, glaring at the road as if it had wronged him.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
Examples of alleged wronging by the district include:
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2023
Qatar, shielded from the economic impact by its $300 billion sovereign wealth fund, denied wronging its neighbours and held out until the dispute was resolved this January.
From Reuters ● Sep. 8, 2021
This may be one reason your roommates could tell themselves that they weren’t wronging you.
From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2021
He has denied wronging, and the trial is scheduled to start in May.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 25, 2020
But he knowing their errand told them it was not they who were wronging him.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
