Be wrong
Correct
Correct verb - To remove errors, defects, deficiencies, or deviations from.
Both terms in one sentence
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When asked the final question, Toast gave a different answer, only for it to be wrong while the answer he had been giving previously was correct.
Source: Gave Up Too Soon - In The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, the initial phone codes to contact Mycroft are actual words with nulls added to get them to the correct length (I think Mannie dials MYCROFTXXX, but I could be wrong on the number of null Xs).
Source: Phone Word
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