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The exit you only recognize from the rearview, usually mid-apology.
means Not correct, just, or appropriate — out of line with fact, morality, or what was intended.
from From Old English 'wrang,' meaning crooked or twisted, borrowed from Old Norse 'rangr' (awry, unjust). The root idea is physical: something bent out of true. It's a cousin of 'wring' and 'wrench' — the sense of twisting carried over into the moral world, so that to be 'wrong' is, quite literally, to be bent away from the straight.
- Brain bias
- Confidence peaks exactly when knowledge bottoms out
- Etymology
- From Old Norse rangr, meaning crooked or twisted
- Physics twist
- Newton was wrong about gravity, yet bridges stand
- Survival edge
- Being wrong fast beats being right too late