erroneous
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"If this effect is not accounted for, it can lead to the erroneous conclusion that the expansion rate is accelerating."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026
These include technical issues in China qualifying, a safety car turning the race on its head in Japan, a retirement while leading in Canada, and the still-unresolved farrago over erroneous pit-lane speeding penalties in Monaco.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
The data behind the statistics on aging are incomplete or erroneous, leading to skewed reports.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
Sethi and Rounds made the erroneous filings in a request to the appeals court to review an immigration decision.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026
They often approached visitors as if they might be deities, possibly calculating, in the spirit of Pascal's wager, that the downside of an erroneous attribution of celestial power was minimal.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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