correct
verb (used with object)
to set or make true, accurate, or right; remove the errors or faults from: The new glasses corrected his eyesight.
is correcting
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present progressiveof correct (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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But clearly, all hope is not lost - most believe that the market is correcting itself from previous highs.
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2025
Carol Steinbeck would also help her husband by not only typing the drafts as he wrote them but with “writing the revision, that is, correcting errors and editing for contradictions and awkwardness.”
From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2024
Dwayne Johnson’s fans smelled that “The Rock” was cooking up fibs, and now the cheat-meal connoisseur is correcting his “first-ever” burger flub.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2024
The “difficult” part is correcting errors that pop up as quantum calculations progress, which happens at a significantly higher rate than in classical systems.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 28, 2023
“Yes; but friend Favoral is firm enough for both,” interrupted M. Desormeaux; “and it is more than probable that at this very moment he is correcting his daughter of the sin of sloth.”
From Other People's Money by Émile Gaboriau
