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Discover LudwigThe phrase "wrongly used" is grammatically correct and commonly used in written English.
You can use it when describing or correcting an error or mistake in the usage of a word, phrase, or grammar in a sentence. Example: The word "their" was wrongly used in the sentence; it should have been "there."
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But Richard James, former director of the centre for healthcare associated infections at the University of Nottingham, pointed out that the UK could not solve the problem on its own and global action in countries where antibiotics are over-used, wrongly used and can sometimes – even in southern Europe – be bought over the counter, was vital.
About 50 other people carried posters reading "Heresy arises from words wrongly used" and "Allah is only for us".
I believe the schedule seven powers were wrongly used against me and I hope this court will make that clear.
EBay's PayPal unit sued Bank One on Sept. 29, claiming its online bill-payment system was being wrongly used.
"Fear of breaching the provisions of the Act should not be wrongly used to stop people taking photographs or videos which provide many with much pleasure," it says.
The word surreal is overused and often wrongly used, but in the case of the Washington Post Election Night Live party, the word was apt.
DNA tests not only proved his involvement, but also showed that physical evidence had been wrongly used at two trials in 1990 to implicate the five teenagers.
(A) Some teachers wrongly used last year's test for practice, giving children a peek at questions repeated on this year's exam.
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".
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The terms job satisfaction and motivation are often -but wrongly- used interchangeably in verbal (and often in written) communication; however there is a clear distinction between them.
We discovered very quickly that, although IoT seems to be very much overly/wrongly used in the English-speaking world, there really isn't a direct local translation in these four locales.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com