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Word: corrective (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bonus of NaturallySpeaking is that the software continues to learn your voice and grow more accurate as you use it. When the computer misidentifies something you've said, you say "Correct that" and type in what you really said. Over time, the system adjusts amazingly to your speech...

Author: By Kevin S. Davis, | Title: Is Voice Recognition Possible? | 11/4/1997 | See Source »

...Crimson reporter who wrote this article never asked me if I was gay, so why did she assume I was? Did she think we were really just all gay and that our decision to use the word "queer" was just a politically correct gesture? She wrote that Spectrum was "promoted" as a group for queers of color, as if that's just the way it was "promoted," while in reality it is something else. Spectrum is a group for queers of color, and that is a fact that doesn't need to be placed in quotes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Queer Does Not Mean Gay | 11/4/1997 | See Source »

...didn't anticipate this kind of openness--he admitted that they had made mistakes in recent years and had tried very hard to correct them," said Chwang, father of Winston Chwang...

Author: By David A. Fahrenthold, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Class of '01 Parents Have Mixed Views | 11/3/1997 | See Source »

...ground, this was good news. One degree was a small enough drift for mission control to correct remotely. Bypassing Mir's unconscious computer system, the controllers sent up a command instructing the station's engines to light. An instant later they did, and the groaning old spaceliner came slowly to a stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A BAD DAY IN SPACE | 11/3/1997 | See Source »

...elocution classes intended to correct a lisp that caused him to pronounce all Ls and Rs, he fell in love with performing...

Author: By Jenny E. Heller, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Theater Fixture Brustein Brings Repertoire to Harvard | 10/30/1997 | See Source »

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