erroneous

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"We urge the US side to immediately correct its erroneous ways, meet China halfway... and resolve issues through dialogue and negotiations," Beijing's commerce ministry said in a statement.

From Barron's • Mar. 16, 2026

The scandal dates back to 2013, when a new DWP billing system issued erroneous bills to thousands of customers, including a Van Nuys couple billed nearly $52,000.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026

The publicity stunt by the restaurant - called All Hopes No Promises - has led to Toto songwriter David Paich and manager Steven Karas calling the plaque "completely erroneous" and "comical".

From BBC • Feb. 18, 2026

Volunteers who work on free software he maintains, a widely used program called Curl, were inundated with useless or erroneous reports.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 11, 2025

In 1532, however, Johannes Vögelin measured the parallax of the comet that appeared in that year and claimed to confirm the erroneous result of pseudo-Regiomontanus.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton