as in mistakenly
in a mistaken or inappropriate way
people erroneously believed that the disease was contagious
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Recent Examples of erroneously
The Pitch reported in 2003 that the state had affirmed that King’s record was clean, and the charges were erroneously linked to his name.
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Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 30 Mar. 2026
Energy Secretary Chris Wright erroneously posted — and then deleted — a message that the US Navy had escorted an oil tanker through the strait near Iran, only for the White House to concede no operation had occurred.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 11 Mar. 2026
Hundreds of millions of dollars were erroneously wired across the state, apparently due to a subtle technical error.
—Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 11 Mar. 2026
The Milwaukee County Medical Examiner's Office erroneously declared Robinson dead on March 2.
—Steven Martinez, jsonline.com, 9 Mar. 2026
Within 24 hours of the first US-Israeli strikes on Iran, ships in the region’s waters found their navigation systems had gone haywire, erroneously indicating that the vessels were at airports, a nuclear power plant and on Iranian land.
—Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 6 Mar. 2026
However, legitimate questions were raised on appeal as to whether her political speech, not popular in Colorado, erroneously informed the trial judge’s sentencing of her.
—Doug Friednash, Denver Post, 6 Mar. 2026
Salerno suggests that several documents in the first few hundred years after Michelangelo's death correctly attribute the work to the artist but that in 1984 a scholar debunked it, erroneously in her view, and it has remained wrongly attributed ever since.
—ABC News, 4 Mar. 2026
Early on in the case, a slate of federal lawyers appeared to agree in a private memo that ended up erroneously posted on the case’s public docket.
—Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 3 Mar. 2026
Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 30 Mar. 2026
Energy Secretary Chris Wright erroneously posted — and then deleted — a message that the US Navy had escorted an oil tanker through the strait near Iran, only for the White House to concede no operation had occurred.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 11 Mar. 2026
Hundreds of millions of dollars were erroneously wired across the state, apparently due to a subtle technical error.
—Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 11 Mar. 2026
The Milwaukee County Medical Examiner's Office erroneously declared Robinson dead on March 2.
—Steven Martinez, jsonline.com, 9 Mar. 2026
Within 24 hours of the first US-Israeli strikes on Iran, ships in the region’s waters found their navigation systems had gone haywire, erroneously indicating that the vessels were at airports, a nuclear power plant and on Iranian land.
—Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 6 Mar. 2026
However, legitimate questions were raised on appeal as to whether her political speech, not popular in Colorado, erroneously informed the trial judge’s sentencing of her.
—Doug Friednash, Denver Post, 6 Mar. 2026
Salerno suggests that several documents in the first few hundred years after Michelangelo's death correctly attribute the work to the artist but that in 1984 a scholar debunked it, erroneously in her view, and it has remained wrongly attributed ever since.
—ABC News, 4 Mar. 2026
Early on in the case, a slate of federal lawyers appeared to agree in a private memo that ended up erroneously posted on the case’s public docket.
—Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 3 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for erroneously
Adverb
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Three American fighter jets were mistakenly downed by friendly Kuwaiti fire in the first days of the conflict in the midst of an Iranian air assault.—
Aamer Madhani,
Fortune,
31 Mar. 2026
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The calamity in the Atlanta race quickly drew comparisons to other errors, where leaders have mistakenly followed lead cars exiting the race course shortly before the finish.—
Bill Chappell,
NPR,
31 Mar. 2026
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The unanimous decision from a three-judge appeals panel upheld Peter’s conviction but found the lower court had incorrectly sentenced her and infringed on her freedom of speech.—
Karissa Waddick,
USA Today,
2 Apr. 2026
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The back-of-house hose was found incorrectly attached with no backflow preventor or air gap, causing potential dirty water to come back up from the sink.—
Paige Moore,
AZCentral.com,
1 Apr. 2026
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“Erroneously.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/erroneously. Accessed 3 Apr. 2026.
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