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Agree that one was wrong, as in I stand corrected—we did go to Finland in 1985. This idiom was first recorded in John Dryden's The Maiden Queen (1668): “I stand corrected, and myself reprove.”

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How to use stand corrected in a sentence

If he appeared March 4, then the conversation—well, I stand corrected.
Warren Commission (5 of 26): Hearings Vol. V (of 15)|The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
I stand corrected; I was only imagining what you would have said if you had been there.
Thirty Years' View (Vol. II of 2)|Thomas Hart Benton
Those who thought that Scott forged his own nonsense, will henceforth stand corrected.
A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II)|Augustus De Morgan
However, I stand corrected; and we'll speak very respectfully of the lady hereafter.
The Road to Understanding|Eleanor H. Porter

They stand corrected by a whisper; a word or a glance reminds them of the great eternal law.
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9|Robert Louis Stevenson