Sentence examples for incorrect quotation from inspiring English sources

(That incorrect quotation, which has been widely attributed to Mr. Nasrallah and has been repeatedly cited in congressional testimony and elsewhere, is based on a paraphrase of the actual quote).

An article on Tuesday about United States intelligence reports on security in eastern Libya before the Sept. 11 attack against the American diplomatic mission in Benghazi included an incorrect quotation from a State Department transcript of a briefing on Oct. 10.

"Paul Joicey asks 'When exactly did the dictionary description for plucky change to be '[not very good] at his job'?'" writes Hugh Watson, entailing a horrible (and probably completely incorrect) mess of quotation marks.

The greatest number of errors was found in the coding ascribing the reason as being "for ensuring PTA" or "against ensuring PTA" (43%, i.e. 9 quotations of the 21 quotations with incorrect coding).

The earlier version included incorrect formatting after a quotation from Brent Scowcroft that made it appear that the next paragraph was also part of the quotation.

An article on Friday about the man deemed to be the 17th reincarnation of the Karmapa, one of the most revered figures in Tibetan Buddhism, gave the incorrect context for a quotation by Robert J. Barnett, director of the Modern Tibetan Studies Program at Columbia University.

During the drafting of the original article (Kirkpatrick and Zang 2011), neither author noticed that a citation was incorrect, with only part of the citation given in quotation marks, and the remainder appearing as if it were paraphrased.

The quotation also left an incorrect impression about the creation of the Nakeds line.

This finding has to be contrasted with the proportion of quotations that were deemed incorrect.

**Taken as incorrect when at least one coding concerning the quotation was deemed incorrect.

The low response rate, the validation of only a subset of the quotations and the fact that 21 (21%) of our codings for quotations were described as being somewhat incorrect raises at least four open questions that are relevant not only to the particular review of reasons assessed in this study, but also to further similar studies: 1) What are the reasons for a coding to be deemed incorrect?