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Central to that effort is its new Alfie robot, which the company says can learn from its mistakes and correct them in real time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
The findings suggest that successful cleanup depends on more than receiving the correct chemical signal to engulf apoptotic debris.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 5, 2026
Gosling believes parenting trends often represent a pendulum swing, with one generation trying to correct what it believes the previous one got wrong.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
“So correct me if I’m wrong. There’s also people who don’t want to” become citizens, Hilton asserted.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
Before we can carve the obelisk, it is important to select the correct piece of granite.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
He pauses, then corrects himself: "As fast as possible, of course."
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
“It’s not a romance, it’s a love story,” she immediately corrects him.
From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2026
As the market corrects its math, the quality names should outperform.
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
“Laid off by the digital revolution, not retired,” Monica corrects her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2026
“Ay, I’m being honest. My thing is, girls usually date boys who are like their daddies, and I ain’t gon’ lie, when I saw that white—Chris,” he corrects, and I smile.
From "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas
Fortunately, the tax code allows many of these missteps to be corrected.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
Education Department and her loan servicer, as well as disputing her credit report, to get the situation corrected.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
“If you think about it,” he corrected me, “Bitcoin is half-priced compared to last year.”
From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026
“He had the fight against Tatsuro Taira; I think he evolved and corrected some mistakes he made in that fight. So I think it’s going to be completely different.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
“Fan,” he corrected, feeling like his entire face was about to burst into flames.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
Malissa Tayaba, vice chair of the Shingle Springs tribe, said the bill was a modest step toward correcting the exclusion of tribes from decisions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
“If they do not, the index probably has more correcting to do.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
Detecting those jumps has been difficult, so the ability to monitor them in sound could provide an important new tool for identifying and correcting quantum errors.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
If an aircraft crashes, we focus on finding the engineering defect, correcting it, and enforcing established liability standards for the damage created.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
Katie was always correcting her and transferring the chalk or the needle from her left hand to her right.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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