wrong number
Example Sentences
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In the past, I’ve accidentally given incorrect public transit information when writing about how to get to a museum, or reported the wrong number of poles in the product description for a tent.
From Slate • Mar. 28, 2026
Suddenly, machines on the East Coast that tried to process trillions of requests were getting the internet’s equivalent of a wrong number.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 21, 2025
It’s estimated that 70 percent of miscarriages happen when an embryo has the wrong number of chromosomes.
From Salon • Feb. 1, 2024
When he didn't get through, he tried changing a digit here and there, thinking he might have jotted down a wrong number.
From BBC • Sep. 4, 2023
Or it might have been a wrong number, someone asking for “Peter or Ricky,” and Bri just assumed the man had said Puerto Rico.
From "The Dead and the Gone" by Susan Beth Pfeffer
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
