erroneously

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The Dale County Sheriff's computer database indicated - erroneously, as it turned out - that there was indeed an outstanding warrant for Herring's arrest, so the officer quickly arrested Herring and searched him incident to that arrest (in the process finding drugs and a pistol).

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  1. In an erroneous manner; by mistake; not rightly; falsely. The profession and vse of Poesie is most ancient from the beginning, and not, as manie erroniously suppose, after, but before any ciuil society was among men. Puttenham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 3. How innumerable have been the instances in which legislative control was erroneously thought necessary! H. Spencer, Social Statics, p. 439.

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  • The irony, of course, was that the West widely believed (rather erroneously, as we now know) that Moscow had been calling the shots in Poland. —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • If something is reported erroneously, don't be afraid to challenge it. —  xml's Blinklist.com
  • I don't know what kind of "leftists" this author mixes with but it is difficult to believe that she has talked to a wide range of people from across the genuine European Left (a term which does not include those who describe themselves, usually erroneously, as "Centre-Left" - who are often economically neo-liberal as well as pro-zionist). —  open Democracy News Analysis - Comments
  • However erroneously, senior Bush Administration officials have been the subject of accusations that implicate not only U.S. criminal statutes but also international law, and which are arguably subject to claims of "universal jurisdiction" by foreign states. —  RedState
  • In a March 3 story about a Supreme Court decision on refugees seeking asylum, The Associated Press reported erroneously the name of the government board that rejected a refugee's appeal. —  phillyBurbs.com: Home RSS feed
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