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

It says the real numbers of people affected may be even higher than thought since some sudden cardiac deaths are wrongly recorded as asthma, epilepsy or even drowning.

From BBC • May 31, 2026

Last season a record four red cards were overturned on appeal after a player had been wrongly sent off.

From BBC • May 29, 2026

And so his texts played a decisive role in legitimizing the new post-Kuhnian history of science because they were wrongly read as endorsing a thoroughgoing relativism.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton