Used in a Sentence

erroneously

How to use erroneously in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for erroneously.

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Org/wiki/State_secrets_privilege People erroneously tortured by the govt had their cases thrown out. Cases as low as bank robbery have zero chance.

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Quick take

in a mistaken manner; "he mistakenly believed it"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of erroneously gathered in one view.

adverb

in a mistaken manner; "he mistakenly believed it"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for erroneously.

adverb

in a mistaken manner; "he mistakenly believed it"

Example sentences

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Org/wiki/State_secrets_privilege People erroneously tortured by the govt had their cases thrown out. Cases as low as bank robbery have zero chance.

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So, Ed Davis is sending officers to threaten people who, from a legal perspective, have not been convicted of a crime and have been erroneously jailed for years. Lovely.

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This isn't to take away from the research; the most interesting result was just how close to valid inputs these erroneously classified images are. But again, this isn't some fatal flaw.

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The heuristics based on that data erroneously suggest that skin is one of the least cancer prone tissues. However, we know on the basis of microbiology that this isn't the case.

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About 3,700 deletions come from files that were erroneously replaced by empty files. Another 1,400 or so are from removing the license comment at the top of the files, and I'd imagine stripped comments throughout the code add a bit more.

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This erroneously uses the life expectancy at birth rather than the life expectancy at <current age> - a common mistake. If my parents are 80, I don't expect them to die in 1 year just because life expectancy at birth is 81.

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This feels hacky, and likely to be used erroneously or abused - at which point browser will be forced to smartly ignore leaving us with yet more cruft. Performance tuning is a fine art, and browser is in a better position to do it vs your average web developer.

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At one point an integer overflow meant that additional ones were erroneously created, but that's been patched since 2009. > Bitcoins, while possibly uncrackable are definitely not unhackable.

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Now, yes - somebody could erroneously change the test condition to make it pass, although hopefully that kind of change would be spotted by even a cursory code review. You can say the same thing about developers who carelessly suppress compiler warnings without understanding what they're telling them.

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They relish competition because they believe, erroneously, that they're working in a meritocracy and that their own skills are so exceptional they will definitely rise to the top anyway.

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For one thing, Mr. Shear told me, colleges might erroneously identify the account of a person with the same name as a prospective student or even mistake an impostors account as belonging to the applicant, potentially leading to unfair treatment. Often, he added, false and misleading content online is taken as fact.

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This enabled a very fast check of whether or not a new candidate url should be added to the url frontier, with only a low probability of erroneously adding a url that had already been added. other way round? bloom filter provides a low probability of erroneously believing a URL had already been added when it had not, zero probability of believing a URL had not already been added to the filter when in fact it had.

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Looking at it as simply a chemical problem erroneously reduces what is likely a complex issue in a complex organ. What ketamine and other disassociatives do is they "loosen" one's attachment and identification with various parts of their cognitive minds, allowing thoughts and feelings to exist in their own space without having such a strong hold on a person's conscious self, or seat of awareness, or whatever.

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Now how about someone deals with cops who illegally force doctors to do enemas and anal cavity searches on people for having strange posture, or do roadside vaginal cavity searches on women with no probable cause, or shoot people's dogs upon erroneously entering their homes, or shoot unarmed suspects standing still with hands in the air? Also, I find it incredible that the people who swore to serve the citizens and protect the constitution of their country are so quick to completely disrespect the said constitution so often.

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Most people in the English-speaking world think erroneously about biological evolution and especially about the implications of evolution for human medicine. I am not alone in thinking that popular thinking about biology needs to be improved by rejecting the idea of organismal agency in evolution,[2] although it is remarkably hard to find this kind of careful thinking by a Google search amid the flood of webpages that specifically assert a purpose or intention to evolution by natural selection.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use erroneously in a sentence?

Org/wiki/State_secrets_privilege People erroneously tortured by the govt had their cases thrown out. Cases as low as bank robbery have zero chance.

What does erroneously mean?

in a mistaken manner; "he mistakenly believed it"

What part of speech is erroneously?

erroneously is commonly used as adverb.