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How to use the word wrongly in a Sentence?

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Brandon was a gifted and dedicated writer, actor and athlete with a sensitive soul who was wrongly taken from us too soon, no matter how deep the pain I’ve endured in losing him, I wouldn’t trade our time together.

Eliza Hutton

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The video reveals that Cathy Latham had a more significant role with the SullivanStrickler team's work in Coffee County than Cathy Latham claimed, we can see Cathy Latham escort the team into the office that morning, for example. And she's an important connection to the effort to create a slate of Georgia electors who would have wrongly voted for Trump for the 2020 election, which now looks to be the subject of a grand jury investigation in Fulton County.

David Cross

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The trial court allowed the State of Georgia unlimited use of bad character evidence, which we objected to all along, this is exactly how innocent people are wrongly convicted.

Maddox Kilgore

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

There are battles we choose not to fight. Not because we are weak but because we are strong. Not because they are hard, but because they are wrongly structured.

Goa Kerle

added by Goa_
2 years ago

While Travis Price is disappointed by this verdict, Travis Price respects the jury process, our concern is that other citizens don't suffer the same mistreatment that Travis Price endured. We will continue to fight for those who have been wrongly accused or subjected to excessive force and will push back against Rock Hill Police Department and any other who attempts to take advantage of those they are entrusted to protect and serve.

Justin Bamberg

Found on CNN
2 years ago

They’re making the rules up as they go along … They made some mistakes, as any organization would because this is all new, but the problem is now they don’t want to say that this was wrong. We’re handling these children wrongly, and let’s step back, take a breath and figure out how to fix this for the good of all the kids.

Pat Magee

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

According to the Inspector General, there was a mistake but no one acted wrongly, and I’m left wondering, how can that be? clearly, good military intentions are not enough when the outcome is 10 precious Afghan civilian lives lost and reputations ruined.

Steven Kwon

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

What I now realize I have done is cause harm by wrongly speaking in a manner that perpetuates racism, and for that I am so deeply sorry. I also apologize to my friend Rachel Lindsay for not listening to her better on a topic she has a first-hand understanding of, and humbly thank the members of Bachelor Nation who have reached out to me to hold me accountable, i promise to do better.

Chris Harrison

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Over the past several weeks a growing number of House Democrats wrongly blamed the violence in the Middle East on Israel, in fact, Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,RashidaTlaib, and Cori Bush irresponsibly tried to delegitimize our closest ally in the region, calling it an ‘apartheid state.’ Within days, this same sentiment of bigotry spilled into several major U.S. cities. Graphic videos showed pro-Hamas mobs intentionally target random Americans simply because they were Jewish.

Kevin McCarthy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

He has been wrong, intentionally deceptive, and inconsistent throughout this entire pandemic. A few examples of Fauci’s failures include : claiming there was very little risk to Americans in January of 2020, opposing President Trump’s China travel ban then crediting it with saving lives, and wrongly predicting an explosion of cases in Texas after Gov. Abbott lifted the state mask mandates, it is long past time for Dr. Fauci to stop talking to the American public. Fauci should resign or be fired immediately.

Guy Reschenthaler

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

When we talk about the number of facial recognition scans unfolding in the United States every day, we don't even know the full number, you can have people who are being sent to jail wrongly who never know that facial recognition played a role in their arrest.

Albert Fox

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Your statement also wrongly implies that your continued tenure in the office is necessary to ensure that cases now pending in the Southern District of New York are handled appropriately, this is obviously false.I fully expect that the office will continue to handle all cases in the normal course and pursuant to the Departments applicable standards, policies, and guidance.

Attorney General Barr

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We need our president, and all who hold office, to be moral leaders, for the sake of George Floyd, for all who have wrongly suffered, and for the sake of us all, we need leaders to help us to be 'one nation, under God, with liberty and justice for all.'.

Michael Curry

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

I felt like the officers were wrongly getting away with spilling my blood.

Alexander Baxter

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Many have referred to that video with a hashtag #MilanWillNotStop. It was a video which went viral on the internet. Everyone was sharing it, I also shared it, rightly or wrongly, probably wrongly.

Beppe Sala

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We will return the apostle to his flock, five million faithful stand behind a wrongly accused man.

Ken Rosenfeld

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

For seventy years, these four men have had their history wrongly written for crimes they did not commit. As I have said before, while that is a long time to wait, it is never too late to do the right thing, i believe the rule of law is society's sacred bond. When it is trampled, we all suffer. For the Groveland Four, the truth was buried. The Perpetrators celebrated. But justice has cried out from that day until this.

Ron DeSantis

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Democrats wrongly blame the private sector for our problems.

Michael Bloomberg

Found on CNN
5 years ago

That income inequality is a big predictor of sexy selfies suggests that sexy selfies are a marker of social climbing among women that tracks economic incentives in the local environment, rightly or wrongly, in today’s environment, looking sexy can generate large returns, economically, socially, and personally.

Dr Blake

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

When you engage in DNA testing with 23andMe, you make a choice [about which testing and cost model you prefer], but you make the assumption (wrongly) that this is their business model -- e.g., charge me for a kit and provide the service. But as we’ve discovered, that is not the case. Their actual business model is based upon selling their ever-growing data pool of DNA results to whoever wants to purchase it.

Joyce Lignell

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

And the President, himself, acknowledged The White House's why he did The White House, there was no cause for taking away John Brennan's security clearance other than the fact that John is a critic, and the President associates him, wrongly, with the effort to find out if Russia was involved with meddling in the election and the President was involved, the campaign was involved. So this is a matter of profound principle.

Tony Blinken

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Many antigun politicians and members of the media have wrongly claimed that 3D printing technology will allow for the production and widespread proliferation of undetectable plastic firearms, regardless of what a person may be able to publish on the internet, undetectable plastic guns have been illegal for 30 years. Federal law passed in 1988, crafted with the NRA's support, makes it unlawful to manufacture, import, sell, ship, deliver, possess, transfer, or receive an undetectable firearm.

Chris Cox

Found on CNN
5 years ago

In the preliminary investigation, the co-pilot was found to be smoking an e-cigarette, smoke diffused into the passenger cabin and relevant air conditioning components were wrongly shut off, without notifying the captain, which resulted in insufficient oxygen.

China News

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

It is a wrong precedent. It was a wrong judgment. It was not legal and it was based wrongly on the tenets of the constitution.

Colin Gonsalves

Found on CNN
5 years ago

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