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
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.
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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
Gabriel Landeskog scored and had two assists to match the output of Martin Nečas, who also had a goal wiped away erroneously.
—Andrew Knoll, Daily News, 3 Mar. 2026
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
Gabriel Landeskog scored and had two assists to match the output of Martin Nečas, who also had a goal wiped away erroneously.
—Andrew Knoll, Daily News, 3 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for erroneously
Adverb
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The Libyan governmental body also mistakenly reported that the tanker had sunk.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
24 Mar. 2026
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Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who had been living in Maryland with his family, was mistakenly deported to El Salvador in March 2025.—
Emily Mae Czachor,
CBS News,
22 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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The sink valves were incorrectly connected, causing continuous pressure and risk of cross-contamination between the chemical dispenser and potable water.—
Paige Moore,
AZCentral.com,
26 Mar. 2026
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Calculus relies on the notions of infinity and infinitely small quantities (called infinitesimals), but Newton and Leibniz defined these concepts in vague geometric terms; used incorrectly, their formulas could lead to nonsensical calculations, like division by zero.—
Leila Sloman,
Quanta Magazine,
25 Mar. 2026
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“Erroneously.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/erroneously. Accessed 30 Mar. 2026.
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