1
as in amendment
a change designed to correct or improve a written work
the copy editor's corrections were marked in red
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as in punishment
suffering, loss, or hardship imposed in response to a crime or offense
received a severe correction after the third offense
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Recent Examples of correction
The first steps toward a culture course correction are to create an opportunity in which everybody feels comfortable communicating with each other.
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Evan Grant, Dallas Morning News, 10 Feb. 2026
In this moment, the idea that nice girls win feels less like a provocation and more like a correction.
—Kelly Ehlers, Rolling Stone, 10 Feb. 2026
As federal prosecutors in Brooklyn tell it, Hernandez, 36, started working for the NYPD in January 2020, but left her communications tech gig at the end of 2021 to take a job as a city correction officer.
—John Annese, New York Daily News, 9 Feb. 2026
Fairlead Strategies undertakes no obligation to maintain or update this material based on subsequent information and events or to provide you with any additional or supplemental information or any update to or correction of the information contained herein.
—Katie Stockton, CNBC, 9 Feb. 2026
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Evan Grant, Dallas Morning News, 10 Feb. 2026
In this moment, the idea that nice girls win feels less like a provocation and more like a correction.
—Kelly Ehlers, Rolling Stone, 10 Feb. 2026
As federal prosecutors in Brooklyn tell it, Hernandez, 36, started working for the NYPD in January 2020, but left her communications tech gig at the end of 2021 to take a job as a city correction officer.
—John Annese, New York Daily News, 9 Feb. 2026
Fairlead Strategies undertakes no obligation to maintain or update this material based on subsequent information and events or to provide you with any additional or supplemental information or any update to or correction of the information contained herein.
—Katie Stockton, CNBC, 9 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for correction
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But Sunday’s remarkable landslide mean the LDP now has enough seats to override votes in the upper house of parliament, to propose amendments to the constitution, and to chair all lower house committees alongside its coalition partner.—
Jessie Yeung,
CNN Money,
10 Feb. 2026
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After hearing testimony from about 40 witnesses, the Senate Judiciary Committee postponed a vote on the bill so the sponsors could work on amendments.—
Shaun Boyd,
CBS News,
10 Feb. 2026
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Santa Clara, California — Mike Vrabel made his nnname in the NFL as a crunching outside linebacker, delivering punishment to opposing offenses and blowing up their plays on his way to winning multiple Super Bowl titles with the New England Patriots.—
Kyle Feldscher,
CNN Money,
5 Feb. 2026
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He was sentenced to an unconditional discharge, leaving his conviction intact but sparing him any punishment.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
5 Feb. 2026
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The child may use the money without penalty to help pay for college or buy a first home.—
Jeanne Sahadi,
CNN Money,
9 Feb. 2026
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That first penalty was decisive and controversial.—
Sebastian Stafford-Bloor,
New York Times,
9 Feb. 2026
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So up and over went Adebayo, and straight down upon Ware came Adebayo’s dunking wrath.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
9 Feb. 2026
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Instead, his minions, so afraid of earning his wrath, have remained quiet.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
9 Feb. 2026
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“Correction.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/correction. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.
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