wrongly

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Anna, ironically, works for a nonprofit that seeks to exonerate the wrongly convicted.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

Rightly or wrongly, recent developments have likely alienated the very crowd that constitutes a Tony viewership.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

BBC News has also seen posts from Tuesday on X in which Grok wrongly identified Hill and Parsons as the officers involved in Nowak's arrest.

From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026

However, the Supreme Court heard arguments that Cheshire West was wrongly decided and creates an unsustainable administrative burden on health and social care systems.

From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026

Most people released from prison after being proved innocent receive no money, no assistance, no counseling—nothing from the state that wrongly imprisoned them.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson