Example Sentences

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Don’t assume the system will correct its own mistakes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

"We will continue investing in vaccines because ... this is an anomaly that will correct itself. I hope pretty soon."

From Barron's • Dec. 16, 2025

"The current trajectory is very difficult to believe. There has certainly been a lot of bragging going on. But investment has to deliver a return or the market will correct itself."

From BBC • Sep. 22, 2025

But no campers were lost, and the army colonel in charge of the cleanup committee was optimistic: “All these camps will be rebuilt, but the owners will correct the errors they have made,” O.D.

From Slate • Jul. 8, 2025

The inclusiveness of demands spring from a want of knowledge of the sacrifices which order requires from the friends of liberty—success will correct these views, and experience show the path which true patriotism opens.

From Graham's Magazine, Vol XXXIII, No. 6, December 1848 by Various