Sentence examples for notoriously wrong from inspiring English sources

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Early reports of tragedies are notoriously wrong, speculating about motive months or years before officials release most of the relevant evidence.

But it should be borne in mind that writers are notoriously wrong about their output, and that many readers would disagree with him.

In a radio interview this morning, Mr. Gore brushed aside questions about being stalled in the polls, insisting that such surveys this far in advance of Election Day -- Nov. 7 -- are "notoriously wrong".

"Any of these data modelling tools – trying to predict the future – they are notoriously wrong," said Louise Humpage, a senior lecturer in sociology and criminology at the University of Auckland.

In 1957, the mathematical economist and Nobel laureate Herbert A. Simon predicted that a machine would become the world chess champion in a decade, and he was just the first in a long line of illustrious scientists whose forecasts about computer chess were notoriously wrong.

Predictions on potential winners are notoriously wrong in many years because the outcome is determined - partly - by viewers from around Europe who call in their votes which are then awarded to the various acts on a scale of 12 to 0. One of the most talked-about performers ahead of this year's contest, Stella Mwangi from Norway, was already eliminated in Tuesday's first semi-final round.

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It can't be easy narrowing down a planet's worth of cinema, but added to these headline-making slipups are the continuing problems with the selection process for this notoriously wrong-headed category.

(Focus groups can notoriously get it wrong. They famously hated the "Seinfeld" pilot and loved "Person of Interest," which got off to a slow start on CBS).

Both groups attempted to restrict their analyses only direct interactions using the presence of a seed site (see The Dominance of the Seed Site), and while this is the best marker we have for predicting genuine miRNA targets, these predictions are notoriously inaccurate, being wrong more often than they are right (when you include false negatives 36– 40 as well as false positives 41– 41).

Pinning down just what it is that is wrong is notoriously hard, which is why so many buyers have come, talked confidently about the market and "Our Customer", and then gone again, with sales still inching south.

The truth lies elsewhere; as many cops will confirm -- too often crime victims' and eyewitnesses' accounts of the "race" of suspects are notoriously unreliable and often wrong.

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