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How to use correctness in a sentence

26 example sentences · noun

Correctness means freedom from error. Example: “It's easy to prove partial correctness, but it's not obvious that it is also totally correct.”

Examples of correctness by meaning

nounConformity to recognized standards.

  • I mean, people who talk about political correctness as being a kind of thought police have no idea of what a thought police is.2002 October, Christopher Hitchens, “The Power of Facing”, in The Atlantic

More sentences with correctness

  • It's easy to prove partial correctness, but it's not obvious that it is also totally correct.From the entry partial
  • Why should we ban controversial speakers from college grounds? Surely that's political correctness gone mad?From the entry go mad
  • Still, he said, “I’m so tired of all this political correctness.2021 July 17, Jacob Bernstein, “Keith McNally Stirs the Pot”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 17 Jul 2021. From the entry bs
  • OK, I'll bite: political correctness may not be perfect, but isn't its aim to empower and protect?2020 October 11, Barbara Ellen, “John Lydon: 'Don't become entrenched in one opinion and get stuck there for ever'”, in The Observer…. From the entry I'll bite
  • But this book is not a piece against political correctness and the outrage culture.2016, Nicolaj Klitbo, Trigger Warnings, →ISBN, page xiii. From the entry outrage culture
  • Using assumptions, however, our goal is to prove correctness while finding complex corner-case bugs.2006, Harry D. Foster, Adam C. Krolnik, David J. Lacey, Assertion-Based Design, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 58. From the entry corner case
  • Political correctness cripples discourse, creates ugly language and is generally stupid.2004, George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 72. From the entry political correctness
  • The notion of political correctness has ignited controversy across the land.1991 May 4, George H. W. Bush, “President George H.W. Bush's commencement address at the University of Michigan”, in The Michigan Daily. From the entry political correctness
  • The younger brother questions the correctness of the pursuit of the girls.1984, Maxwell John Charlesworth, Howard Morphy, Diane Bell, Religion in Aboriginal Australia: An Anthology, page 361. From the entry skin
  • Instead of the Ten Commandments, it's political correctness.2022, Dave Rubin, Don't Burn This Country. From the entry woken
  • Trump's equivalent instinct is towards anti-political correctness.2021 December 30, Richard Shorten, The Ideology of Political Reactionaries, Routledge, →ISBN. From the entry vice signalling
  • "The C.I.A. was systematically destroyed by political correctness, by petty Beltway wars, by careerism and much more." . . .2002 February 3, Evan Thomas, "Bring Back the Exploding Cigars" (review of See No Evil by Robert Baer), New York Times (retrieved 17 Feb…. From the entry go to the dogs
  • Slavish worship of "political correctness" is the death of scientific progress and is the worst form of mind control.2000, Maryl L. Winningham, Margaret Barton-Burke, “Preface”, in Maryl L. Winningham, Margaret Barton-Burke, editors, Fatigue in Cancer: A…. From the entry Woozle effect
  • The correctness of the accounts receivable ledger is ascertained by comparison of its balance with that of the control account.1917, John Regester Humphrey, George Anton Nahstoll, Accounting Records for Country Creameries, page 15. From the entry rule off
  • Critics argue that inclusive games are sacrificing entertainment value for political correctness or that diversity is being “forced” into narratives at the expense of quality.2024, Louisa Ben Saïd, Angad Singh Malik, The Gender Equality Quest in Video Games, page 68. From the entry wokification
  • We have inferred a similar theory of prosodic history from the uncertainty and irregularity of pre-Rowleyan prosody as compared to Rowley's correctness.2015, Donald S. Taylor, Thomas Chatterton's Art: Experiments in Imagined History, page 114. From the entry Rowleyan
  • He will not abide intellectually lazy thinking or any form of acquiescence to political correctness and its facile rituals of politeness and forced conviviality.2009, Gary Clark, Quadrant, November 2009, No. 461 (Volume LIII, Number 11), Quadrant Magazine Limited, page 8. From the entry conviviality
  • One strength of the approach has been the ease with which the physical conditions of connectedness and lacunosity arise as necessary for correctness.2009, Juan González Nieto, Guojun Wang, Wolfgang Reif, Autonomic and Trusted Computing, →ISBN. From the entry lacunosity
  • These works are monostylistic and prescriptive: they concentrate upon formal Welsh, and they promote this variety of Welsh as a model of correctness.2005, Robert D. Borsley, Welsh Negation and Grammatical Theory, page 12. From the entry monostylistic
  • Even when a pump is used, it is recommended that the volume control set be time taped to double check correctness of pump function.1991, Donna Phillips Smith, Comprehensive Child and Family Nursing Skills, page 625. From the entry time tape
  • Lahmann's unprecedented success proved beyond doubt the correctness of his teachings and the fallacy of the germ theory of disease, vaccinations and serum therapy.1926, Otto Carqué, The Key to Rational Dietetics, page 7. From the entry therapy
  • He would refer to 'the dregs' of society in regard to those who were the left-behinds in Liverpool's impoverished areas - it was not an age of 'political correctness'.2005, John Furnival, Children of the Second Spring, →ISBN. From the entry left-behind
  • Last October, urging Congress to get tough on the obvious suspects, the leggy blonde commentatrix Coulter declared, ‘Americans aren’t going to die for political correctness.’ They already have.2002, The Spectator. From the entry commentatrix
  • Adding queuing prematurely can hide synchronization issues such as deadlocks and livelocks, and further, as your program converges toward correctness, you may find that you need more or less queuing.2017, Katherine Cox-Buday, Concurrency in Go […] , O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 124. From the entry livelock
  • As the name implies, a race condition means that two processes are competing within the same time interval, and the race affects the integrity or correctness of the computing tasks.2012, Charles P. Pfleeger, Shari Lawrence Pfleeger, Analyzing Computer Security, Prentice Hall, page 79. From the entry race

Meaning of correctness

  1. noun Freedom from error.
  2. noun Conformity to the truth or to fact.
  3. noun Conformity to recognized standards.

Full definition of correctness

Questions about correctness in a sentence

How do you use correctness in a sentence?
Correctness is used as a noun. For example: “It's easy to prove partial correctness, but it's not obvious that it is also totally correct.”
What is a short sentence with correctness?
“Trump's equivalent instinct is towards anti-political correctness.”
What does correctness mean?
Correctness means freedom from error.

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