How to Use correction in a Sentence

correction

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  • The teacher marked corrections on his students' tests.
  • Please make corrections before handing in your compositions.
  • As for when the corrections will be made, Max has not yet made that clear.
    — Vulture, 24 May 2023
  • Someone was dispatched to NIST room 2051, the clock room, to enter the correction.
    — Tom Vanderbilt, Harper’s Magazine , 13 Mar. 2023
  • This hire brings the correction staff to three officers.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 13 May 2023
  • The corrections department did not say how Valdez died or where he was found.
    — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 27 Apr. 2023
  • The marked corrections patrol vehicle that the two were last seen in was found that day in a parking lot in town.
    — Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 6 Oct. 2023
  • All of it felt critical for a team hunting a course correction.
    — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Apr. 2023
  • This was further confirmation that the correction from the July 27th highs was not over.
    — Tom Aspray, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2023
  • The mayor is a former police chief, and one of the council members is a corrections officer.
    — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
  • The market stabilized a bit over this past year, but experts believe there are still corrections to be made.
    — Kristine Gill, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Jan. 2024
  • After that, up to three trajectory correction maneuvers are planned to fine-tune its course to the moon.
    — William Harwood, CBS News, 14 Feb. 2024
  • The coast-to-coast movement spurred by Floyd’s murder led to a backlash, a belief among a segment of America that the course correction on race had gone too far.
    — Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2023
  • Before being elected sheriff, Valdez worked as a corrections officer in Kansas City and rose to the rank of captain in the Army.
    — Zaeem Shaikh, Dallas News, 29 June 2023
  • Meanwhile, the suit claims, corrections workers passed around the baby, which was still attached to Caswell through the umbilical cord.
    — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Some of that is strike aftermath, and some is a result of the market correction that was already happening before the WGA walked out.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 11 Nov. 2023
  • And for every possible course correction, the house came crashing down.
    — Jeff Miller, Variety, 17 Apr. 2023
  • The corrections department said the warrant of execution issued by the state Supreme Court wasn’t read to Gunches.
    — Jacques Billeaud, ajc, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Either way, there’s a problem, and correction is needed.
    — Andrew T. Walker, National Review, 31 Dec. 2023
  • Over 20 federal corrections officers have died in the line of duty, BOP says.
    — Luke Barr, ABC News, 9 May 2023
  • Questions regarding these corrections may be emailed to the Army Review Board Agency at army.arbainquiry@army.mil.
    — Emily Palmer, Peoplemag, 14 Nov. 2023
  • However, our analysis suggests that these are short-term corrections, and that the long-term growth potential of the sector is alive and well.
    — Martin Reeves, Fortune, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Instead of acting on the promised sum, Inaru’s fellow inmates turned her over to corrections officers.
    — Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Karyn Kusama was behind the camera, making minute, courteous corrections to the angles and expressions of the actors’ pliant faces over the course of two scenes.
    — Lydia Kiesling, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2023
  • But corrections officer Andrei Akinshin, who has guarded the giant black doors at the entrance of death row for more than a decade, told me he’s loved every minute of it.
    — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
  • As the crowd’s corrections continued getting louder, Rae ducked her head in laughter.
    — Vulture, 8 Oct. 2023
  • There had to be error correction, but performed by the computers attached to the network rather than within the network itself.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Apr. 2023
  • In Volusia County, the 3-year-old son of a state corrections officer shot himself with a gun found in his parents bedroom.
    — Christopher Cann, Orlando Sentinel, 11 Mar. 2023
  • One of those papers, published in 2012, was formally tagged with corrections.
    — Benjamin Mueller, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2024
  • By the end of July 2005, Kennedy’s Salon article had been appended with five correction notes.
    — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 4 Jan. 2024

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