Example Sentences
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McNamara’s quantitative cost-benefit-analysis approach to business had righted Ford’s postwar problems but proved disastrous when he tried to apply it to the Vietnam War.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 10, 2026
He got his team very badly wrong to begin with, but he righted the wrongs thereafter.
From BBC ● Mar. 1, 2026
He righted the ship with a birdie at the par-five 13th, where he missed the green but chipped to three feet from dense rough well below the green.
From Barron's ● Feb. 1, 2026
“It’s upside down. A lot of people say that it was actually upside down before, and we just righted it,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 7, 2026
Fjalar and Galar righted their boat and went home.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
