wrong way
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Liu and his team took a several-hundred-million-dollar hit earlier this year after a wrong way bet on diesel and crude prices, The Wall Street Journal reported in April.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
"They should avoid going down the wrong path in the wrong way, only to ultimately suffer the consequences themselves."
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
Standing before a 20-foot wall of bright blue buckets, he tells one, facing the wrong way, that they don’t carry buckets, that they’re old-fashioned and no one uses them anymore.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
PC Blades and his colleague PC Tom Clough died in a head-on collision between their police car and a vehicle going the wrong way on the A66 near Middlesbrough early on 22 August.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
Max starts walking, but it’s the wrong way.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
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