corrective
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The answers come in Rowan Jacobsen’s “In Defense of Sunlight,” a corrective to the claim that the sun is something to be shunned.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026
"ZDF had already added a corrective transparency notice to the broadcast on Saturday."
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026
That’s a necessary corrective, according to some Republicans.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
And this is a really useful corrective to the notion that every single time there’s smoke, there’s fire.
From Slate ● May 22, 2026
An optometer is an instrument for measuring refractive errors in eyes— in order that corrective lenses may be prescribed.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
