How to Use correction in a Sentence

correction

noun
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  • The teacher marked corrections on his students' tests.
  • Please make corrections before handing in your compositions.
  • As for when the corrections will be made, Max has not yet made that clear.
    — Vulture, 24 May 2023
  • But in the case of Sia, the urgency of a course correction is hard to deny.
    — Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone, 3 May 2024
  • At that point, the correction officer moved the woman to the detox cell.
    — John Benson, cleveland, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Someone was dispatched to NIST room 2051, the clock room, to enter the correction.
    — Tom Vanderbilt, Harper’s Magazine , 13 Mar. 2023
  • But on Wednesday, House Democrats made a course correction, with a bill that restores about half of the amount that was cut.
    — Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 25 Sep. 2024
  • One of the ironies of the longtermist correction was that, all of a sudden, politics was on the table in a new way.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2022
  • This hire brings the correction staff to three officers.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 13 May 2023
  • The corrections department did not say how Valdez died or where he was found.
    — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 27 Apr. 2023
  • The marked corrections patrol vehicle that the two were last seen in was found that day in a parking lot in town.
    — Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Over the last month, Mainland China and Hong Kong stocks have been up +20% even with the recent correction.
    — Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
  • The correction system is no stranger to such staffing struggles.
    — Stephanie Pagones, Fox News, 18 July 2022
  • But as the authors explained in their correction, any amount is arguably too much for you.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 18 Dec. 2024
  • The correction continues to be milder in the Northeast and Midwest.
    — Lance Lambert, Fortune, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Some have not been able to save their changes or make corrections, while others could not submit their form at all.
    — Bernard Mokam, New York Times, 5 May 2024
  • One big correction is that passkeys are stored on your client device, not transferred from your phone.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Backlash to and correction of the comments — which come amid rising antisemitism in the U.S. — were swift.
    — Julianne McShane, NBC News, 27 Dec. 2022
  • The tweet was swiftly deleted and then replaced with a correction.
    — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2022
  • But if so, the course correction has arguably swung too much in one direction.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 23 Nov. 2022
  • All of it felt critical for a team hunting a course correction.
    — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Apr. 2023
  • Coppinger praised the correction officers who stepped in to stop the attack.
    — Nick Stoico, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Sky News took down its broadcast and issued a correction on Oct. 1, the day before the Instagram post was shared.
    — Hannah Hudnall, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The gun belonged to the father, a state corrections officer.
    — Katie Kustura, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2023
  • But a correction is overdue and would prevent the housing mania that ended in tears in 2008.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 29 Nov. 2022
  • But the bank said any hit to profits is unlikely to be steep in the near term, given the sharp correction in crude and commodity prices.
    — Megha Mandavia, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2022
  • This was further confirmation that the correction from the July 27th highs was not over.
    — Tom Aspray, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2023
  • The chef’s immediate response is to bring her a correction, in a laughably big bowl.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2022
  • The same can be said of the market correction of the 2022 (triggered by rising interest rates to battle high inflation) as traders paid down debt.
    — Kenneth G. Winans, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Only one report must be filed except when the ownership information changes or requires a correction.
    — Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 20 Dec. 2024

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