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wrong

[rawng, rong] / rɔŋ, rɒŋ /










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He didn't become the world's richest man – with a personal fortune of over $700bn, and soon to be over $1trn – without proving his doubters wrong.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

“Everything is under a microscope, and the cost of getting things wrong is very, very high,” said Sona Iliffe-Moon, chief communications officer at Yahoo.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

Related: ‘It is such a fine line’: I am a CFP and see nothing wrong with networking on the golf course.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 8, 2026

But there is no shortage of evangelists who will point to Musk's staggering ability to raise money, challenge orthodoxy and prove his doubters wrong.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

“My mom took our whole family to the Holocaust Museum in Houston. After that we had planned to go to lunch, but it just seemed wrong to experience that and then go have fries.”

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold




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