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Definition for correct

adjective as in proper, appropriate

verb as in discipline, chastise

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To correct for this, the Subaru Telescope team used adaptive optics, a technology that continuously adjusts to cancel out these distortions and stabilize the light waves in real time.

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Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a more precise and efficient gene-editing approach that can correct several disease-causing mutations at once in mammalian cells.

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“It is less damaging to workers to correct a policy move that is too easy than to correct one that is too tight,” explained James Glassman, a former economist with J.P.

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Ms Hayes said her autism was never properly assessed and instead she was given mental health diagnoses that may not have been correct, rendering her care plan ineffective.

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So he founded the Enhanced Games to correct what he viewed as rampant hypocrisy that left athletes not only underpaid, but also limited in their potential by constantly shifting and arbitrary rules.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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