wrongly

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A serving officer, Tristan Parsons, was also wrongly accused online and has been relocated after receiving threats.

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026

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 Verify has also obtained evidence that current police officer Tristan Parsons, who was also wrongly accused online of being involved, was not in the country at the time of Nowak's murder.

From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026

And Wang Lung answered proudly, “My sons are both good scholars and they can each tell when a letter is wrongly written, and whether the wood or the water radical is right.”

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck