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One of those wrongly identified was a Chinese American whose LinkedIn profile identifies him as a New York-based finance professional who graduated from Cornell University in 2020 -- four years before the alleged rape.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

Dame Siobhan, sitting with Lord Justice Colton, backed defence submissions that the wording used wrongly imposed a higher threshold for establishing probability.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

This group of New York City residents said that the Department of Finance had wrongly identified them as second-home owners despite living in the city as their primary residence for years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

This week, faculty wrote that his words lent credence to false accusations against the symposium and wrongly suggested that the lawyer or the organizers supported her client’s alleged crimes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

And when a murmur of surprise ran among the clerks at his son’s wisdom he called out merely, “Change it, then! We will not put our name to anything wrongly written.”

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck


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