How to Use erroneous in a Sentence

erroneous

adjective
  • All three of these erroneous features were present in some of the fakes.
    Jordan Michael Smith, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2024
  • There were erroneous reports all over the place that day.
    Rachel Epstein, Marie Claire, 1 Sep. 2021
  • When scanned, the erroneous tickets do show the correct prize amount won.
    Nick Hollkamp, The Courier-Journal, 23 Oct. 2020
  • When the erroneous Facebook posts went viral, Palley was forced to comment on the posts to try to set the record straight.
    National Geographic, 17 Jan. 2020
  • The good news is the vast majority of these were erroneous.
    Gordon Kelly, Forbes, 12 July 2022
  • While most of the erroneous stamps were taken out of circulation, a sheet of 100 was sold to the public.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Abe's account replied with the same message to the correct Trump message at the same time the erroneous quote tweet was posted.
    Jennifer Hansler, CNN, 7 June 2018
  • One check was deposited into the erroneous account in the amount of $2,762.
    cleveland, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Worst of all is that the Inquirer was forced to correct the same erroneous assertion less than a year and a half ago.
    Corey Deangelis, National Review, 6 Apr. 2021
  • Many people still think that exercise will wear out the knee faster, but this is proven to be erroneous.
    Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 12 July 2023
  • And why did the media repeat his erroneous data over and over?
    David Zweig, New Republic, 16 May 2017
  • The recording then provides a phone number for the victim to call to return the erroneous refund.
    Mark Davis, kansascity, 13 Feb. 2018
  • An Apple spokesperson said that the ruling from the ITC is erroneous and should be reversed.
    Mark Gurman, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Not a single member of the home crowd can rest easy, given the erroneous history of their beloved team.
    SI.com, 28 Oct. 2019
  • Little erroneous details kept pulling me out of the story.
    Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2021
  • That’s why, as Rachel Robinson said, the erroneous story of the Reese-Robinson hug does a disservice.
    Jonathan Eig, WSJ, 20 Aug. 2022
  • The erroneous email was also sent to 3,930 applicants who applied a year ago, the statement said.
    Travis Andersen, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Some of those loans may contain erroneous payment counts without any clear sense of how they will be fixed.
    Danielle Douglas-Gabriel, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Apr. 2022
  • On the whole, the erroneous email is just one of multiple twists and turns for the debt relief proposal, which the White House announced in late August.
    Cheyenne Haslett, ABC News, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Quartz compiled some of the strange ways AI has been shown to screen out job candidates, from the wild and weird to the erratic, the erroneous, and the blatantly biased.
    Gabriela Riccardi, Quartz, 26 May 2023
  • The show's Twitter feed shared the erroneous news and then Trump did, too, without bothering to credit Fox.
    Brian Stelter, CNN, 24 Aug. 2020
  • Don’t trot out the tired and often erroneous excuse about the Chargers being unlucky.
    Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 2023
  • The team also introduced small bugs to some of the programs and found that Twist can detect those bugs and reject the erroneous programs.
    IEEE Spectrum, 18 Feb. 2022
  • And that lack of data might lead to erroneous conclusions.
    Mihir Sharma, Twin Cities, 4 July 2024
  • In its statement, CBP said the cost estimates are erroneous.
    Greg Moran, sandiegouniontribune.com, 13 Dec. 2017
  • Given the number of erroneous beliefs about wine that persist, this could have been an epic feast lasting for weeks.
    Eric Asimov, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2017
  • The order came in response to a decision by Twitter the same week to mark two of his erroneous tweets with fact-checking labels.
    Cat Zakrzewski, BostonGlobe.com, 4 July 2023
  • For whatever reason, Friday was the day the White House press corps decided to push back on some of Trump’s erroneous claims and boasts.
    Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 21 Mar. 2020
  • The erroneous entry appears to be a series of keystroke errors caused by hitting almost every key just to the right of the letters that spell out the Detroit Democrat's name.
    Eye On Michigan, Detroit Free Press, 23 Sep. 2024
  • One key area leading to patient dissatisfaction is erroneous patient billing—those times when patients get surprisingly large bills that are confusing and may seem like a mistake.
    Alex Zekoff, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024

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