wrong number
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In the past, I’ve accidentally given incorrect public transit information when writing about how to get to a museum, or reported the wrong number of poles in the product description for a tent.
From Slate • Mar. 28, 2026
Suddenly, machines on the East Coast that tried to process trillions of requests were getting the internet’s equivalent of a wrong number.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 21, 2025
It’s estimated that 70 percent of miscarriages happen when an embryo has the wrong number of chromosomes.
From Salon • Feb. 1, 2024
The call was placed to a wrong number.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 11, 2023
I give her Kelsea’s home phone number, figuring there will be no obvious record of it, and that it can always be discounted as a wrong number.
From "Every Day" by David Levithan
