Sentence examples for somehow wrongly from inspiring English sources

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Who hasn't had the nightmare or masochistic fantasy of somehow wrongly ending up in a psychiatric hospital and realising that every panicky thing you would then do — scream, plead, rage, desperately mimic the mannerisms of sanity that would otherwise come naturally — would of course be interpreted as madness?

I am prepared to grudgingly accept that a lot of misguided-but-not-actually-evil people genuinely believe, somehow, wrongly, that the fabulously rich and powerful West is in the midst of a war for its very existence against the grindingly poor and oppressed inhabitants of Islamic nations.

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It has been a season scattered with debris from a clumsily carried out racism trial, a ball-boy kicked (possibly racist somehow), the wrongly accused racism of a referee and what cemented for everyone Luis Suarez as a terrible racist: his attempt to eat a white man.

But rightly or wrongly, many users expect that Silicon Valley somehow has found a way to neutralize the news business.

While that may be true, it's notable that YouTube isn't publicly addressing the growing number of complaints from creators who – rightly or wrongly – believe their channel has been somehow "downgraded" by YouTube's recommendation algorithms, resulting in declining views and loss of subscribers.

To support his case, Kripke offered a thought experiment: Suppose, he asked us to imagine, that Gödel's theorem was actually the work of a fellow named Schmidt; it's just that Gödel somehow got hold of the manuscript and thereafter was wrongly credited with its authorship.

Recognize that people wrongly think that turning up the volume somehow creates instant understanding.

Many at the time, and even to this day, wrongly equate the slogan to mean that we are somehow promoting violence.

The word "sanguine" means optimistic or hopeful and it is regularly, but wrongly, used in the Guardian as if it were somehow synonymous with "sang froid".

The Trojan Horse was an idea that the Trojans fell for because they thought, wrongly, as it turned out, that having a Trojan Horse would somehow help them tax the rich.

But the panic over children's technology use wrongly assumes that all parents before the internet or Apple were somehow spending hours a day making sure their kids were properly stimulated.

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