right and wrong
Example Sentences
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"This isn't really about winners and losers. It's about restoring fairness and putting right and wrong, genuine and fake, back into their proper place."
From BBC • Jul. 5, 2026
It challenges prevailing power structures and asks people to reconsider their established notions of right and wrong.
From Salon • Jun. 5, 2026
“No one is getting Regina Georged,” the company wrote on social media, moving into an explanation of the right and wrong way to calculate food calories.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026
“All of this confusion, where both accounts are right and wrong at the same time ... it’s going to take a while for somebody to determine that.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 8, 2026
In a similar manner, centuries of respectable writers have gradually shifted the collective consensus of what is right and wrong while shrugging off now-forgotten edicts by self-appointed guardians of the language.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
