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The White House initially did not dispute that Trump made the post and defended it, before a White House official told USA TODAY that a staffer had erroneously made the post, which was then taken down.—
Terry Collins,
USA Today,
7 Feb. 2026 -
After calls for its removal -- including by Republicans -- the White House said a staffer had posted the video erroneously.—
BILL BARROW,
Arkansas Online,
7 Feb. 2026
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Popular with educators and computer hobbyists, the low-cost machines are now being sought for running AI agents like OpenClaw, as a safer alternative to a user’s main device, or the cloud, where agents could wreak havoc by, say, mistakenly wiping your entire drive.—
Brendan Ruberry,
semafor.com,
17 Feb. 2026
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The Salvadoran national’s case has become a focal point in the immigration debate after he was mistakenly deported to his home country last year.—
Travis Loller,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Feb. 2026
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Warsh has also said the Fed’s economic models wrongly assume that rapid economic growth threatens to elevate inflation.—
Christopher Rugaber,
Fortune,
31 Jan. 2026
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The commission hears cases of public employees who believe they were wrongly fired for making agency disclosures.—
Jeffrey Schweers,
The Orlando Sentinel,
30 Jan. 2026
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After Sweden accused Canada of double-touching stones on Friday, igniting a global controversy, Canadian curler Marc Kennedy leveled allegations against the Swedes of improperly filming his delivery.—
Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
15 Feb. 2026
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The newspaper found a judge who improperly threatened to call immigration authorities on a defendant in his courtroom and a court that illegally used contempt of court to dramatically inflate jail sentences for poor and unhoused individuals.—
Sam Tabachnik,
Denver Post,
15 Feb. 2026
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Amid communication snafus, some residents were incorrectly told their lights were back on.—
Bracey Harris,
NBC news,
5 Feb. 2026
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Missing a filing deadline, incorrectly valuing an asset or failing to list a creditor could result in your case being dismissed or losing property.—
Angelica Leicht,
CBS News,
4 Feb. 2026
Adverb
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Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act by inaccurately reporting account information to credit bureaus, potentially harming consumers' credit scores.—
Julia Gomez,
USA Today,
18 Feb. 2026
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Groundhog Day is a tradition in both the United States and Canada where a groundhog comes out of its burrow and — usually inaccurately, especially in Phil’s case — predicts when winter will end.—
David Matthews,
Mercury News,
22 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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Pizzi went on to say Pembroke Park Town Manager David Lynch acted inappropriately to get a second opinion from a lawyer besides the city attorney on removing Jacobs’ from office.—
Amanda Rosa,
Miami Herald,
10 Feb. 2026
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The robotaxi chauffeurs teens around Phoenix and Los Angeles without concerns of a driver becoming distracted or acting inappropriately.—
Sasha Rogelberg,
Fortune,
9 Feb. 2026
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The kitchen is also pointlessly complicated.—
Jason Fried,
The Atlantic,
7 Feb. 2026
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Trump should ask himself whether stirring a hornet’s nest serves any purpose other than pointlessly alienating a benevolent neighbor that is beginning to pad its insurance policy by reaching out to non-hemispheric powers.—
Daniel DePetris,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Jan. 2026
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“Misguidedly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misguidedly. Accessed 20 Feb. 2026.
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