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.
  • The central conceit of Run and Hide is a correction of the record.
    Rafia Zakaria, The New Republic, 5 May 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
  • This is a course correction that will take time, even in the unlikely event that the Democrats wish to make it.
    The Editors, National Review, 13 June 2022
  • At that point, the correction officer moved the woman to the detox cell.
    John Benson, cleveland, 9 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Jonathon Grant, 61, died over the weekend at one of the prisons where corrections officers walked off the job to strike.
    Landon Mion, Fox News, 25 Feb. 2025
  • 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 system is no stranger to such staffing struggles.
    Stephanie Pagones, Fox News, 18 July 2022
  • But as the authors explained in their correction, any amount is arguably too much for you.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 18 Dec. 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
  • During a correction, prices drop by 10% to 20% from the previous peak.
    Vidhura S Tennekoon, The Conversation, 17 June 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
  • At the scene, deputies discovered the victim was a 39-year-old off-duty corrections deputy.
    Christina Shaw, Fox News, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Coppinger praised the correction officers who stepped in to stop the attack.
    Nick Stoico, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Nov. 2022
  • But for some recent home owners, a correction could still prove painful.
    Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 1 Apr. 2022
  • In response to the wildcat correction officers strike, Hochul more than two weeks ago posted several thousand National Guardsmen to the prisons.
    Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, 7 Mar. 2025
  • Stocks have reacted negatively to tariffs in particular, with the Nasdaq hovering around correction territory and the S&P 500 down about 3% since Trump took office.
    David Goldman, CNN, 10 Mar. 2025

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