correctness
conformity to fact or truth; freedom from error; accuracy: The correctness of the eyewitness’s account was later called into question.
the quality of being proper; conformity to an acknowledged or accepted standard: We are concerned with the correctness of our probationers' conduct.
the quality of being just or right in a judgment or opinion: We accepted the correctness of the tribunal’s ruling.
an indication of or adherence to a liberal or progressive ideology on matters of ethnicity, religion, sexuality, ecology, etc.: A car strewn with Styrofoam cups is hardly a testimony to environmental correctness.
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Uploaded code is run in a sandboxed Docker container and its output tested for correctness.
Solve coding challenges at Runcode.ninja online competition, Nov. 6-9 | Jim Salter | October 30, 2020 | Ars TechnicaOthers have challenged the correctness of their ratings on the basis that the agencies had not discussed them with the country’s representatives.
Africa’s post-Covid debt crisis is being aggravated by unreliable data and global ratings agencies | Misheck Mutize | October 23, 2020 | QuartzSo, saying that we would have been safer to call it by a different name because of political correctness, I throw that out the window.
The search for those has been intense, as they are taken as the main possible confirmation of the correctness of inflation.
Schrödinger’s Cat When Nobody Is Looking - Issue 89: The Dark Side | Daniel Sudarsky | August 26, 2020 | NautilusMost times, these are not due to correctness or error from your end.
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Thus the adoption of any particular verb is a matter of taste, not a question of absolute correctness.
Go Ahead, End With a Preposition: Grammar Rules We All Can Live With | Nick Romeo | November 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThat was why he had his own plane, a big dual-prop Martin 404 called, in those days before political correctness, El Dago.
I do not believe in political correctness, by the way, OK?
Ben Carson, Auschwitz, and My High School Graduation | Matt Finkelstein | June 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe league has never kicked out someone for speech before, but the era of smartphones and political correctness may change that.
Mark Cuban Warns That Basketball Players Could Get the Sterling Treatment Next | Evan Weiner | June 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd just who exactly is being silenced by political correctness?
Judge: Now, Sir, your punishment shall depend on the shortness and correctness of your answers.
The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; | VariousHe was engaged in the Encyclopedie, and his articles on grammar are drawn up with great precision, correctness and judgment.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology | Joel MunsellWho are you, as you speak our language with such correctness that you might almost be taken for one of our countrymen?
The Border Rifles | Gustave AimardHe knew a good deal by memory, and repeated many passages with feeling and correctness.
My Ten Years' Imprisonment | Silvio PellicoHe was the more convinced of the correctness of this from the fact that the word for trunk or box, in French, is coffre.
Rollo in Holland | Jacob Abbott
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