How to Use correction in a Sentence

correction

noun
  • The teacher marked corrections on his students' tests.
  • Please make corrections before handing in your compositions.
  • At that point, the correction officer moved the woman to the detox cell.
    John Benson, cleveland, 9 Aug. 2022
  • One of the ironies of the longtermist correction was that, all of a sudden, politics was on the table in a new way.
    Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Name changes have led some journals to issue correction notices in the past, an outcome that can lead peers to question whether the author engaged in bad science.
    WIRED, 3 Sep. 2022
  • On the political front, some form of course correction remains a necessity.
    Michael Wahid Hanna, Foreign Affairs, 26 Nov. 2024
  • After record levels of investment during the pandemic, the broader market correction in the tech sector has not been overly kind to health tech as well.
    Seth Joseph, Forbes, 25 Aug. 2022
  • The argument over race correction has raised questions about the scientific data doctors rely on to treat people of color.
    Cassie Spodak, Channon Hodge and Margaret Dawson, CNN, 6 Aug. 2022
  • The newspaper also reported that two correction officers and a captain failed to act for at least 10 minutes.
    Antonio Planas, NBC News, 1 Sep. 2022
  • This boat can hit up to 15 mph and has some great features, including capsize recovery and automatic yaw correction.
    Douglas Helm, Popular Mechanics, 3 Aug. 2022
  • As for when the corrections will be made, Max has not yet made that clear.
    Vulture, 24 May 2023
  • But in the case of Sia, the urgency of a course correction is hard to deny.
    Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone, 3 May 2024
  • Someone was dispatched to NIST room 2051, the clock room, to enter the correction.
    Tom Vanderbilt, Harper’s Magazine , 13 Mar. 2023
  • But on Wednesday, House Democrats made a course correction, with a bill that restores about half of the amount that was cut.
    Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 25 Sep. 2024
  • This hire brings the correction staff to three officers.
    Anchorage Daily News, 13 May 2023
  • The corrections department did not say how Valdez died or where he was found.
    Phil Helsel, NBC News, 27 Apr. 2023
  • The marked corrections patrol vehicle that the two were last seen in was found that day in a parking lot in town.
    Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Over the last month, Mainland China and Hong Kong stocks have been up +20% even with the recent correction.
    Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
  • The correction continues to be milder in the Northeast and Midwest.
    Lance Lambert, Fortune, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Some have not been able to save their changes or make corrections, while others could not submit their form at all.
    Bernard Mokam, New York Times, 5 May 2024
  • One big correction is that passkeys are stored on your client device, not transferred from your phone.
    Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Backlash to and correction of the comments — which come amid rising antisemitism in the U.S. — were swift.
    Julianne McShane, NBC News, 27 Dec. 2022
  • The tweet was swiftly deleted and then replaced with a correction.
    Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2022
  • But if so, the course correction has arguably swung too much in one direction.
    Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 23 Nov. 2022
  • All of it felt critical for a team hunting a course correction.
    Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Apr. 2023
  • Coppinger praised the correction officers who stepped in to stop the attack.
    Nick Stoico, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Sky News took down its broadcast and issued a correction on Oct. 1, the day before the Instagram post was shared.
    Hannah Hudnall, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The gun belonged to the father, a state corrections officer.
    Katie Kustura, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2023
  • The previous misprint on the packaging in no way impacts the value or play experience provided by the product itself in the limited number of units sold before the correction.
    Raechal Shewfelt, EW.com, 4 Dec. 2024
  • In-camera corrections remove distortion and compensate for darkened corners for JPG capture.
    PCMAG, 2 Dec. 2024

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