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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 mayor is a former police chief, and one of the council members is a corrections officer.
    — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
  • The market stabilized a bit over this past year, but experts believe there are still corrections to be made.
    — Kristine Gill, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Jan. 2024
  • After that, up to three trajectory correction maneuvers are planned to fine-tune its course to the moon.
    — William Harwood, CBS News, 14 Feb. 2024
  • The coast-to-coast movement spurred by Floyd’s murder led to a backlash, a belief among a segment of America that the course correction on race had gone too far.
    — Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2023
  • Gratitude acts as a kind of course correction, easing us away from the dark paths to which our minds gravitate—minds that are built to see the glass as half empty.
    — Time, 9 Jan. 2023
  • The industry boomed during the first two years of the pandemic, but researchers say 2022 proved a course correction as revenue shrank.
    — Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2023
  • According to the Royal Bank of Canada, the housing market is in a correction that will last into next year.
    — Vipal Monga, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Before being elected sheriff, Valdez worked as a corrections officer in Kansas City and rose to the rank of captain in the Army.
    — Zaeem Shaikh, Dallas News, 29 June 2023
  • And because of the eGFR correction factor, Black patients needed higher creatinine levels than people of other races to pass that threshold.
    — Cassandra Willyard, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2024

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