Sentence examples for results wrong from inspiring English sources

She proved those results wrong by getting her doctorate in psychology, and she has practiced ever since.

Journalism history is full of cautionary tales about ill-fated instances of jumping the gun – whether the famous "Dewey Defeats Truman" headline in The Chicago Tribune or, much more recently, the many newspapers and cable networks that got the presidential results wrong in 2000.

However, opinion polls in India have a history of getting election results wrong.

Shares of Disney, General Electric Viacom and Time Warner, owners of the four major television news networks, all traded sharply lower on Wednesday, the day after all the TV news outlets called the Florida election results wrong at least once and perhaps twice.

Every election cycle brings with it a host of pundits who get the results wrong, who misread the campaign and perhaps view events through hopeful, partisan eyes.

Actually, Phillips was not the only one who got the result wrong.

But the fact remains that FiveThirtyEight, like almost everyone else, got the result wrong.

In 1992 and 2000, most of them got the result wrong, predicting victories for George H. W. Bush and Al Gore.

The polling industry has set up an independent inquiry into how it managed to get the result wrong.

Ralph Blumenau London No one seems to have picked up on one possibility as to how the pollsters got the general election result wrong (Report, 13 November).

Most of the polls in Britain got that result wrong, partly because their assumptions about turnout turned out to be mistaken.