Sentence examples for simple but wrong from inspiring English sources

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Simple but wrong.

We are not suggesting dumbing down, or making anything simple but wrong.

This was applying a simple (but wrong) extension of the math: if exports create jobs, imports cost jobs.

"What I tell my students is that in the early 1800s when only two fossils were known, you can play connect the dots between those very well, and human evolution is actually very simple, but wrong," he said.

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To boil it all down to God's warriors may be conveniently simple, but it's simply wrong - and being wrong is dangerous.

We should soon know if WIMPs are the answer, or just another simple, elegant, and compelling, but wrong, explanation.

Our drive in their red, 20-year-old VW Passat estate (185,000 miles on the clock) is supposed to be simple, but a few deliberate wrong turns, and a bit of off-roading later ("Why not?") we find ourselves detained by the Uzbek military.

It sounds simple but these things can go wrong very easily.

Frequent capacity shortages and the ensuing rolling black-outs, price spikes, and large price volatility since Summer 2000 raise a simple but substantive question: what went wrong?

Which cards do you need to turn over to tell if the rule has been broken?That sounds simple, but most people get it wrong.

The Washington Post reviewed that report and described it was "ridiculously simple," but Hanauer knew they were wrong, too.

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