correcting
- present participle of correct.
Example Sentences
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After correcting, he was greeted by a section of The Oval crowd rising to applaud him.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
Treating old stem cells with the lysosomal inhibitor increased their blood-forming ability in living animals by more than eightfold, highlighting the powerful regenerative effects of correcting lysosomal dysfunction.
From Science Daily ● May 12, 2026
He says he’s doing nothing other than correcting or updating the many cases and the acts of Congress that have had a pretty long-standing history until today.
From Slate ● Apr. 30, 2026
If the scientific community can’t act on obviously false data—when the problems are carefully documented in the peer-reviewed literature—the prospects for soon correcting course on tens of thousands of flawed studies don’t look promising.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026
But I never really got the hang of it, and Mom’s friends kept correcting me, so after a while I kind of gave up.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
