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correction

[kuh-rek-shuhn] / kəˈrɛk ʃən /




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The sharp gains thus far make South Korea and Taiwan especially vulnerable to a pullback, but strategists see any correction as a buying opportunity as long as earnings in there keep coming through.

From Barron's • Jun. 19, 2026

Danske Bank expects consumer spending to remain subdued until the housing-market correction runs its course.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 17, 2026

The team also reported that the 2025 analysis did not properly account for the mass of host galaxies, a standard correction routinely used in modern cosmology to improve measurement accuracy.

From Science Daily • Jun. 13, 2026

Though Village People singer and songwriter Victor Willis has denied the queer interpretation of the song many times over, one of the people who hasn’t internalized that historical correction is Trump himself.

From Slate • Jun. 11, 2026

The Academy’s instructors were all correction officers with a training credential.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover




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