Correcting
Correcting adjective - Inflicting, involving, or serving as punishment.
Mistake
Mistake verb - To fail to understand the true or actual meaning of.
Correcting is an antonym for mistake.
Both words in one sentence
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He grows out of it, saying that correcting people becomes more annoying than the mistake itself.
Source: Webcomic / Wondermark - While he hasn't stopped with the correcting, "Manjoume Thunder" has embraced the mistake as part of his personal motto.
- Also "Tapestry": Q shows Picard that by correcting one mistake in his youth, a seemingly beneficial act, he never becomes captain of the Enterprise.
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