wrongly

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"It's very worrying," said Seema Misra OBE, a sub-postmaster who was jailed when pregnant in 2010 after wrongly being accused of stealing £74,000 from her branch in Surrey.

From BBC • May 26, 2026

But police never charged the man allegedly responsible and lost vital evidence, only to find it years later and wrongly post it to Michaela, ending any prospect of a conviction.

From BBC • May 23, 2026

The bad news is that they’ve frequently assessed the cycle wrongly at key moments in the past.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026

These approaches could help calibrate systems more responsibly by testing how often an algorithm wrongly flags people or locations.

From Salon • May 12, 2026

“The planets have been read wrongly before now, even by centaurs. I hope this is one of those times.”

From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling