correctness

Example Sentences

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My father, a World War II officer and stickler for correctness, was especially proud of my medal.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026

In the early 1990s, the two men wrote for a campus publication, attacking what they saw as political correctness destroying American higher education.

From Barron's • Dec. 24, 2025

The tunes are all exuberant, and even with a new era of political correctness, never offensive.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2025

"I have seen the arguments in the papers by some lawyers regarding the correctness of some civilians being tried in the Court Martial," President Museveni said in a long post on X.

From BBC • Dec. 12, 2024

I had feared that her sharp, stubborn mind, caught in her self-made antihelical trap, might dig up irrelevant results that would foster uncertainty about the correctness of the double helix.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson