egregious
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"Announcing this decision on World Humanitarian Day, while the world honoured the courage and sacrifice of humanitarians, was particularly egregious," the joint statement added.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
The most egregious error in the dot plot was in the summaries of December 2020 and March 2021, when the funds rate was zero.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
I wonder if I will ever see anything quite so egregious again.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
Even more egregious is the case of AI companies buying and destroying rare books en masse in the process of scanning them for data.
From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026
This is a conservative estimate, since the algorithm was able to identify only the most egregious form of cheating—in which teachers systematically changed students’ answers—and not the many subtler ways a teacher might cheat.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
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