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1 | Yet when it comes to state security, China regards Israel as a model. The National Police Academy of China, in a research paper published in 2014, discussed the “success story” of Israel’s antiterror strategy. A Chinese official now holding a senior position in charge of ethnic affairs had written in a 2002 dissertation that China should to take lessons from Israel’s deployment of West Bank settlers and infrastructure in Palestinian lands for its own campaign targeting 11 million Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang. | to | “to” is a typo in “China should to take lessons,” , | https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/28/world/asia/china-israel-hamas-antisemitism.html |
2 | Vicki Boone, whose Lake Charles, La., house was damaged during Hurricanes Laura and Delta, has seen this play out firsthand. “The money went south of town,” to the majority white neighborhoods, she said. “The mayor took it and fixed everything” there. Meanwhile, “The Black people are still not in their houses.” Researchers have documented what she described: Although recovery in Lake Charles has been slow for everyone, the delays in home repairs have been worse in communities of color than in the majority white neighborhoods. | The | This “The” should be lowercase. | https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/28/opinion/fema-aid-disaster-recovery-climate-change.html |
3 | Up to one million Africans enter the labor market every month, but fewer than one in four get a formal job, the World Bank says. Unemployment in South Africa, the continent’s most industrialized nation, runs at a crushing 35 percent. | get | “get” is a subject-verb-agreement error for “gets” (“fewer than one” is singular), | https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/10/28/world/africa/africa-youth-population.html |
4 | Two predominately Black suburbs, for example, were moved out of a district represented by Representative David Scott, a Black Democrat, and into that of the hard-line Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene. | predominately | “predominately” is not a word. Like most adverbs, the correct spelling is derived by adding -ly to the underlying adjective, predominant. | https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/26/us/politics/georgia-voting-maps.html |
5 | To protect the drawings, Ms. D’Agostino said, visits will be kept to groups of four and limited to 15 minutes, with 45 minute lights-out periods in between to protect the drawings. Tickets, each connected to a specific person whose I.D. will be checked to prevent tour operators from gobbling them up, will cost 32 euros (about $34), and include access to the Medici tombs. Depending on how things go, the museum could increase visitor numbers next year. | 45, minute | You need to hyphenate “45 minute.” | https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/26/travel/florence-michelangelo-drawings.html |
6 | Thus, the troll isn't just a troll he's a man | troll, he's | You need a semicolon, em dash, or atleast a comma here. | |
7 | They are Javier Milei, a far-right libertarian economist and television pundit who has embraced comparisons to Donald J. Trump, and Sergio Massa, Argentina’s center-left economy minister who oversees an economy that has nearly 140-percent annual inflation. | 140, percent | 140 percent should not be hyphenated. | https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/23/world/americas/argentina-election-runoff-milei.html |
8 | They are Javier Milei, a far-right libertarian economist and television pundit who has embraced comparisons to Donald J. Trump, and Sergio Massa, Argentina’s center-left economy minister who oversees an economy that has a nearly 140 percent annual inflation. | a | “a” is incorrect here. Inflation is not a count noun. You just have 140 percent inflation, not a 140 percent inflation. | https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/23/world/americas/argentina-election-runoff-milei.html |
9 | Then he exalted in the stunned silence after his ninth-inning grand slam landed in the bleachers. | exalted | misuse of “exalted” to mean “exulted.” | |
10 | The World Health Organization director, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said that the blackout was making it impossible for ambulances to reach the injured. Like other United Nations and humanitarian organizations, Mr. Ghebreyesus said that the W.H.O. had lost touch with its staff in Gaza as well as health facilities, health workers and the rest of its humanitarian partners on the ground. | Ghebreyesus | Mr. Tedros, , not Mr. Ghebreyesus. Ethiopians do not have surnames; they are always addressed by their given names. Ghebreyesus is his grandfather’s first name. | |
11 | The show closely follows the main beats of Murnau’s masterpiece, which riffed on Bram Stoker’s “Dracula.” The story starts with the young real-estate agent, Thomas (Nick Lehane) being sent to Transylvania for a deal with the reclusive, befanged Count Orlok (Gelb). The Count follows Thomas back to his home in Germany, bringing the plague with him. Aware of the existential threat Orlok represents, Thomas’s wife, Ellen (Rosa Allegra Wolff), sacrifices herself to defeat him. | being, Lehane | Ungrammatically omitted comma after an appositive, . | https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/29/theater/nosferatu-3d-symphony-of-horror-review.html |
12 | The Philadelphia Phillies, who looked like they were lost in the desert since their arrival in Phoenix, finally feel like those menacing bullies again.
They swatted 905 feet worth of home runs in a span of three innings. | 905, feet | The Schwarber and Harper home runs alone add up to 905 feet. The home runs in the span of three innings you’re referring to add up to approximately 1290 feet. | https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/playoffs/2023/10/21/phillies-vs-diamondbacks-live-nlcs-game-5-time-tv-channel-pitchers/71270918007/ |
13 | The New Yorker article caused debate among comedians, critics and fans about to what degree audiences expect stand-up comedy to be factual. In his video, Minhaj called the fact- checking on “Patriot Act” — which tackled subjects such as immigration, policing and affirmative action — as “extremely rigorous.” However, he said, he viewed his work as a “storytelling comedian” differently: “I assumed that the lines between truth and fiction were allowed to be a bit more blurry.” | as | Things are called things, not “called as” things. | |
14 | The foundation hopes to raise the rest of the money needed through donations and requests for federal and other funds, organizers said.
The school does not yet have a name. By the time it opens in 2025, many of the former students at Robb Elementary will be in junior high school. It will welcome a new crop of about 800 of second, third and fourth graders. | of | The “of” in your kicker, in “800 of second, third and fourth graders,” is incorrect. | |
15 | The dinners are so full of drama that they get their own chapter. So do palace architecture, portraiture and the surprisingly rich subject of imperial paperwork in a far-flung empire. Some of the behavior Beard recounts is so extravagant that it would seem to be the opposite of pleasurable. I would guess that few contemporary readers will find the prospect of dining on peacock brains and flamingo tongues very appetizing. “Tall stories” of grotesque entertainments — told and retold as cautionary tales, precisely because they were so appalling — suggest that even the luxury-loving elites had their limits. Commodus’s purported prank platter of two hunchbacks covered in mustard was apparently a step too far. Beard also explains that marital fidelity on the part of any Roman man, let alone an emperor, would have been seen as “slightly weird.” | Commodus’s | By custom, the possesive of an ancient classical name also omits the final s (Achilles' heel; Euripides' dramas) | https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/25/books/review/emperor-of-rome-mary-beard.html |
16 | The decision will “change the lives of so many trans people,” said Yuichi Kamiya, secretary-general of the Japan Alliance for L.G.B.T.Q. Legislation. | secretary-general | “secretary-general” is a style guide violation for “secretary general,” | |
17 | The company’s private equity roots have raised concerns. In March, the credit rating company Moody’s Investors Service downgraded the BlueTriton’s debt rating, citing its high debt load. | the | “the” is a grammatical error in “the BlueTriton’s debt rating”; “the” improperly modifies “BlueTriton,” not “debt rating,” because “BlueTriton” is a possessive noun. | |
18 | The character, whose name was a playful nod to the Beatles song “Rocky Raccoon,” was featured in the hit 2014 Marvel film “Guardians of the Galaxy,” starring Chris Pratt, Vin Diesel, Zoe Saldana, Bradley Cooper and others, as well as in its sequels. | Saldana | Missed the diacritic in Saldaña | https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/30/arts/keith-giffen-dead.html |
19 | The belief by Mr. Netanyahu and top Israeli security officials that Iran and Hezbollah, its most powerful proxy force, presented the gravest threat to Israel diverted attention and resources away from countering Hamas. In late September, senior Israeli officials told The Times they were concerned that Israel might be attacked in the coming weeks or months on several fronts by Iran-backed militia groups, but made no mention of Hamas initiating a war with Israel from the Gaza Strip. | Hamas | Hamas initiating” is an ungrammatically fused participle that should read “Hamas’s initiating.” | https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/29/world/middleeast/israel-intelligence-hamas-attack.html |
20 | The bank’s worst-case scenario is pegged to the 1973 Arab oil embargo that took place during the Arab-Israeli war. A disruption of that severity could remove as much as eight millions barrels of oil per day off the market and send prices as high as $157 per barrel. | millions | “eight millions barrels” is a typo for “eight million barrels,” . | |
21 | The 7,573-square-mile sanctuary would inde 156 miles of cdtline between the towns of Cambria and Gaviota and link the Greater Farallones and Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuaries to the north and the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary to the south, creating a chain of conservation of more than 20,000 square miles. The new designation would limit offshore oil drilling, acoustic underwater testing and other activities in the area, while providing funding for research and protection | 7,573-square-mile | 7,500-square-mile is a modifier and 7,500 square miles is not | |
22 | The 68-year-old walked the grounds with Apollo, an English lab with an endearing disposition. Norman shook hands. He flipped hats into the crowd. He puffed his chest in a form-fitting polo. He also, more notably, made his first public comments since both June's framework agreement, and since PGA Tour officials testified in front of the Senate that he's disposable. In a brief session with a few reporters on Thursday, Norman said neither he nor LIV are going anywhere. | are | “are” is a subject-verb-agreement error for “is” because neither and nor are disjunctive | |
23 | The 1990s renaissance of Black big-budget filmmaking had already spawned a bank heist hit a year earlier with The Hughes Brothers’ “Dead Presidents,” set just after the Vietnam War. F. Gary Gray’s take flipped the genre and rooted it in Black female characters whose bond is solidified through their conspiring against systemic racial traumas. Its shootouts and dramatic escapes lack the punchlines (and nudity) of forerunners like the Pam Grier movie “Coffy,” but ramp up the ammunition and realism. | the | you do not capitalize the “the” in “the Hughes Brothers,” as they are not, as you may know, a newspaper. | https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/26/movies/black-action-movies.html |
24 | TCE has been found in drinking water across the country. It was the subject of the 1995 best-selling book “A Civil Action” by Jonathan Harr, which documented TCE contamination in the water supply in Woburn, Mass. and was later turned into a movie. | Mass, and | Missing comma after a parenthetical state abbreviation, . | https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/23/climate/epa-trichloroethylene-tce-cancer.html |
25 | State senator Mark Lawrence, a Democrat who heads the committee considering the bill, said the committee would consider amendments proposed by any interested person or party. In Maine, “a lot of the legislation that’s proposed is written by lobbyists, companies, different people like that,” he said. | senator | State senator Mark Lawrence” should be “State Senator.” | |
26 | So for decades only accredited scholars, the occasional journalist and big cheeses got to see inside. King Charles III got a peek in 2018. Leonardo Di Caprio was smuggled inside. “We were very good because no one spotted him,” said Paola D’Agostino, the director of the Bargello Museums, to which the Medici Chapels belong. | Di, Caprio | His name is Leonardo DiCaprio, not “Di Caprio.” | |
27 | Since 1978, the legal age for women to marry in India has been 18. Underage marriage has become less common since then, and more legal protections for girls were added in 2006. But nearly 1 in 4 women still marry before they are 18, according to Unicef data, and 1 in 20 before age 15. | marry | “nearly 1 in 4 women still marry before they are 18” is a subject-verb-agreement error for “marries.” “1 in 4 women” is singular. | https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/21/world/asia/indias-daughters-women-careers.html |
28 | She said she lost a friend in Joshua A. Seal, 36, who “Maine people fondly remember from his service as an ASL interpreter during our Covid-19 briefings.” And she took note of Aaron Young, who was just 14 years old. | who | who/whom error: “who” is the object of “remember.” | |
29 | She pointed a post in which the former president criticized the election interference case as “politically motivated” and lashed out at Biden administration for being “corrupt.” Those statements, she said, were perfectly permissible under her order. | at, Biden | “lashed out at Biden administration” is Times Pidgin for lack of “the” before “Biden administration.” | https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/29/us/politics/trump-gag-order-chutkan.html |
30 | Shani Louk, a 23-year-old German-Israeli citizen believed to have been abducted by Hamas on Oct. 7, was most likely killed before she was taken into Gaza, her family said on Monday, saying that a fragment of her skull was gathered at music festival site. https://nyti.ms/46O07F2 | at, music | Ungrammatical for lack of “a” or “the” before “music festival site.” | https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1719099384737009677 |
31 | Professor Davis published two books in 2000. “The Gift in Sixteenth-Century France” is an anthropological look at how gift-giving and reciprocal obligation helped structure society, and “Slaves on Screen” examined the portrayal of slavery, and resistance to it, in five movies, from “Spartacus” (1960), set in ancient Rome, to “Beloved” (1980), an adaptation of the Toni Morrison novel rooted in the American South. Professor Davis said history films offered “thought experiments” about the past, but she criticized their use of fictions that misled viewers. | 1980 | You write that the film adaptation of Toni Morrison’s “Beloved” came out in 1980. The book wasn’t even published until 1987, and the film was released in 1998. Obits desk editor , | https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/23/books/natalie-zemon-davis-dead.html |
32 | Phillies manager Rob Thomson was well-served in his decision to stick with third baseman Alec Bohm in the cleanup spot. Bohm supplied a home run and scored another run. But little else went right for Philadelphia. But the lineup failed to cash in on opportunities in the fourth and the fifth, before Arizona pulled ahead. They put up little fight against Joe Mantiply, Ryan Thompson, Andrew Saalfrank, Ginkel and Paul Sewald, a quintet of relievers who can spend the next few days studying the Texas Rangers. Game 1 of the World Series will take place on Friday evening at Globe Life Field. | But | This “But” is incorrect. The sentence that follows it is not in tension with the one that precedes it; it supports the one that precedes it. | https://theathletic.com/4996520/2023/10/24/diamondbacks-phillies-game-7-nlcs/ |
33 | Part of that involved the WTA’s refusal to allow a representative of the PTPA to participate in either meeting. Ahmad Nassar, the executive director of the PTPA expressed that sentiment in a letter he sent to Simon one week ago, which The Athletic has also seen. | PTPA, expressed | Ungrammatically omitted comma after an appositive modifier. | https://theathletic.com/5014481/2023/10/30/wta-female-players-letter-push/ |
34 | Our Wirecutter experts researched and tested 62 peans to find the best quality and value. The Uni-ball Jetstream RT is the best pen for the job in most situations. | peans | Typo, peans should be pens | |
35 | One Biden administration official said it was evident that the Saudis did not want an Israeli invasion of Gaza. The U.S. official, as well as the Saudi official and the person familiar with the Saudi warnings, all asked not to be named because of the sensitivity of the matter. | all | “all” is ungrammatical here; nouns preceded by “as well” are not subjects, so you are saying that a single official “all asked” not to be named, as well as some other people. | |
36 | On Wednesday night, Mr. Chappelle, wearing a red, black and gray flannel shirt with cutoff sleeves and taking frequent drags from a cigarette, filled his set with jokes about Madison Cawthorn, a pro-Trump former North Carolina congressman and material about transgender people that has drawn widespread criticism. He also joked about being attacked onstage last year by an armed man while performing at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. | congressman, and | Ungrammatically omitted comma after an appositive modifier, . Right now this sentence means that Madison Cawthorn is “material about transgender people” in addition to being a former congressman. | |
37 | On the third day of fighting, Oct. 12, they started to see Russians fleeing. Boomer played a video he had saved on his cellphone of a Russian soldier running way from a bunker. “He understands he will die if he stays there,” he said. | way | “running way from the bunker” is a typo for “running away from the bunker.” | |
38 | On Oct. 2, a pedestrian was hit a by a car, then was hit a by a Cruise vehicle and trapped under the driverless car. As it tried to pull over, the Cruise car dragged the pedestrian until it stopped. Cruise said its autonomous vehicle had “braked aggressively” and blamed the human driver for the incident. | a | “hit a by a” is a typo for “hit by a.” , | https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/24/technology/cruise-driverless-san-francisco-suspended.html |
39 | Officials said the ruptures — in pipes running between Finland and Estonia — had no affect on the security of their energy supplies or data transfers but worried that it was an act of sabotage intended to disrupt both. | affect | affect/effect error | https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/12/world/europe/nato-sweden-baltic-sea-israel-hamas.html |
40 | Mr. Welters, in response to questions from the Finance Committee, shared loan documents dated Dec. 6, 1999, showing that he lent Justice and Mrs. Thomas the entire purchase amount at an annual interest rate of 7.5 percent. While that rate was in line with what might have been found in the marketplace at the time, what made the arrangement unusually favorable was that over the course of the five-year loan, Justice Thomas did not have pay down any of the principal. | have, pay | Missing "to" before "pay" | https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/25/us/politics/clarence-thomas-rv-loan-senate-inquiry.html |
41 | Mr. Johnson, 51, is a lawyer is in his fourth term in the House. He served on former President Donald J. Trump’s impeachment defense team, played a leading role in recruiting House Republicans to sign a legal brief supporting a lawsuit seeking to overturn the 2020 election results and was an architect of Mr. Trump’s bid to object to certifying them in Congress on Jan. 6, 2021. | is | extra is | |
42 | Mr. Hern, 61, is the chairman of the Republican Study Committee, a group committed to advancing conservative ideology that a majority of the Republican conference belongs to. The post often serves as a springboard to leadership positions. Mr. Jordan and Mr. Scalise, as well as former Vice President Mike Pence, all have led the committee. | all | As previously noted, “all” is nonsensical here; only two people cannot “all” do something, and nouns preceded by “as well as” are not subjects, so grammatically there are only two people in this sentence. | |
43 | Mr. DeSantis enacted the law in April, while in Jerusalem. It was a response to the rash of antisemitic incidents reported across the state since 2022. | enacted | Governors sign laws; they don’t “enact” them. | https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/28/us/politics/desantis-israel-antisemitism.html |
44 | Mr. Chesebro’s trial, which had been scheduled to begin Monday, will no longer go forward. Liberal lawyers from his former life had hoped it would provide clues to an enduring mystery: What happened to “The Cheese?” | Cheese | The final question mark should be outside of the quotes, “The Cheese” is not a question itself. | |
45 | Mr. Beem said that the office is in a 100-year-old building and could only hold a maximum of 3,000 pounds on its freight elevator. The driver said the delivery was “well over,” 6,500 pounds, he said.
“That would have crashed our freight elevator right down to the basement,” Mr. Beem said. | over, 6,500 | The comma after “well over” and before “6,500 pounds” is wrong | https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/30/us/coins-lawsuit-payment-colorado.html |
46 | Months after China Evergrande ran out of cash and defaulted in 2021, investors around the world scooped up the property developer’s discounted I.O.U.’s, betting that the Chinese government would eventually step in to bail it out. | I.O.U.’s, I.O.U.’s | The plural of I.O.U. is I.O.U.s, not I.O.U.’s, which is the possessive of a single I.O.U. | https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/28/business/china-evergrande.html |
47 | Minhaj, whose politically-minded Netflix show “Patriot Act” ran from 2018 to 2020, posted the video — which he called a “deep dive on my own scandal” — nearly six weeks after the magazine published its article. In it the reporter, Clare Malone, parsed the details of his biographical comedy around growing up as a Muslim American and an Asian American. | politically-minded | “politically-minded” is a style guide violation in any good publication, . | |
48 | Michael Cohen, former President Trump’s one-time fixer, finished his testimony on Wednesday. | one-time | one-time/onetime error | https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/25/nyregion/trump-cohen-gag-order-engoron.html |
49 | Marc Andreessen "arguably the chief ideologist of the Silicon Valley elite, published a Substack piece that struck me as unusually revealing,’ the columnist Ezra Klein writes. "It’s a vibe. And the vibe is reactionary.” | Andreessen | You need a comma after Andreessen. | |
50 | Many others agree. The economic rise of China and India were the first great shocks of this century, they say. Africa’s youthful tide will most likely drive the next seismic shift. | were | “were the first great shocks” is a subject-verb-agreement error for “was the first great shock” | https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/10/28/world/africa/africa-youth-population.html |
51 | Lionel Messi was awarded his eighth Ballon d'Or this year. Messi's exploits in Miami, as good as they were, did not earn him the award. Rather, it was in helping carry Argentina to its first World Cup since 1986 last December. | in | The “in” before “helping” makes no sense. | https://x.com/nytimes/status/1719122035039682649?s=20 |
52 | Key Lee, 29, a content creator in New York City, is among the haters. “This didn’t need to be made,” she said, calling the intensely sweet flavor, which she described as like maple syrup, off putting.
The comedian Lewis Black dislikes what he calls its mealy texture. “I don’t even know how to describe its flavor because it’s one of the few things on the planet that tastes like poop,” he said. | off, putting | off-putting is one hyphenated word, not a phrase, “off putting.” | https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/26/style/candy-corn-history-halloween.html |
53 | Judge Jones, an Obama administration appointee, has allowed the challenged maps to go into effect in 2022, calling it a “difficult decision” that “the court did not make lightly.” That decision was one of several that found it was too close to that year’s elections to implement new maps. | Obama, administration, appointee | No judge is an “Obama administration appointee,” ; judges are appointed by presidents, not administrations. | https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/28/us/politics/georgia-map-black-voters.html |
54 | Judge Chutkan cited some of those messages in her order on Sunday, saying they had likely violated her order while others public statements by Mr. Trump had not. | others | “others public statements” is a typo for “other public statements.” | |
55 | It is likely that Mr. Trump’s legal team will soon ask the United States appeal court in the District of Columbia, which is hearing the broader challenge to the gag order, to issue its own stay on an expedited schedule. | appeal, court | “appeal court” should be “court of appeals” or at minimum “appeals court.” | |
56 | Israel's minister of strategic affairs, Ron Derner, declared that Israel would "do whatever we have to do" to send a message.
"Gaza won't return to what it was before," Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said. "We will eliminate everything." | Derner | Israel’s minister of strategic affairs is named Dermer, not Derner | |
57 | Inside the church, bottled water was running low. Five plastic crates and one table overflowed with medicine boxes and bottles, but there were no doctors to prescribe them. And despite Mr. Sánchez’s best efforts to ask other authorities to set up a soup kitchen and a water purifier, no support had arrived by Friday. | Sánchez’s | Under your style guide’s two-sibilant rule the possessive of Sánchez is Sánchez’, not Sánchez’s, because it ends with two sibilant sounds separated only by a vowel sound (ch and z). When a word ends in two sibilant sounds (the ch, j, sh, or zh sounds) separated only by a vowel sound, Kansas' population, Governor, Texas, population, Moses' beard, the possessive 's' is also traditionally dropped in some idioms in which the word after the possessive begins with s for conscience's sake. | |
58 | In July, she posted a compilation in appreciation of her father with the caption “He's a certified silly goose.” The 22-second video, which has been view more than two million times, includes snippets of the director snuggling a tiny puppy and laughing hysterically in a tuxedo alongside De Niro and Harvey Keitel. | view | “which has been view” is a grammatical error for “which has been viewed,” | |
59 | In any case, Day began the sketch in the Oval Office, telling the audience, “I’m not out of breath, I’m just excited, ‘cause Halloween is the greatest holiday in the world. | ‘cause | in English, the language you write in, contractions are formed with apostrophes, not single left quotation marks, so the contraction of because is ’cause, not ‘cause | |
60 | In a statement on Saturday about calling off Nguyen’s event, the Y said the decision was made was out of concern with Nguyen’s criticisms of Israel.
| was | The second “was” is a typo in “the decision was made was out of concern,” | |
61 | In 1986, Ms. Merlin was a founder of the Non- Traditional Casting Project (now the Alliance for Inclusion in the Arts), which seeks more opportunities for actors of color and actors with disabilities.
Ms. Merlin, noting that there were many talented, nonwhite actors, told The Record of Hackensack, N.J., in 1990. “The reason they should be cast is because they’re good,” | good | This sentence ends with a comma, | |
62 | If that weren’t enough, Palestinian slaughter is too often presented ahistorically, untethered to reality: It is not attributed to real steel and missiles, to occupation, to policy. To earn compassion for their dead, Palestinians must first prove their innocence. The real problem with condemnation is the quiet, sly tenor of the questions that accompany it: Palestinians are presumed violent — and deserving of violence — until proved otherwise. Their deaths are presumed defensible until proved otherwise. What is the word of a Palestinian against a machinery that investigates itself, that absolves itself of accused crimes? What is it against a government whose representatives have referred to Palestinians as “human animals” and “wild beasts?” When a well-suited man can say brazenly and unflinchingly that there is no such thing as a Palestinian people? | beasts | The question mark goes outside the quotation marks. “wild beasts” is not a question; the author is asking a question about the use of the term “wild beasts.” | |
63 | Hurricane Otis interrupted tropical vacations for some visitors and put a stop to a mining convention in Acapulco, Mexico, as the storm beared down on the city early Wednesday. | beared | The past tense of bear is bore, not “beared,” . | |
64 | His commander, who uses the call sign Condor, was more upbeat.
| Condor, was | Extra space. | |
65 | He sat through the farro and roasted beet salad. The butternut squash soup. The sorghum-glazed young carrots. The short ribs. The crème fraîche ice cream. (“It makes him happy,” Carlos Elizondo, the White House social secretary told reporters during a preview of the dinner.) All of it was whipped up by a James Beard Award-nominated guest chef, Katie Button, and a phalanx of White House chefs. | secretary, told | Missing comma | https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/25/us/politics/biden-state-dinner-australia.html |
66 | Grade inflation, after all, acts just like real inflation. In the early 60s, when, according to GradeInflation.com, about 15 percent of grades given at four-year colleges were A’s, a dollar could buy you a movie ticket. Now, this will get you 15 seconds with a college essay coach and a firsthand lesson in Freud’s concept of the narcissism of minor differences: The more a community shares the same thing, the higher the sensitivity becomes about small disparities. So if everyone else applying to the College on the Hill has A’s in math, your A-minus suddenly gives you the wrong distinction. | 60s | It’s the early ’60s, not the early 60s, which means the early portion of the seventh decade of a person’s life, not the early 1960s | |
67 | Even rarer for “S.N.L.”, a filmed segment called “La Era del Descubrimiento (The Age of Discovery)” was presented entirely in Spanish. | S.N.L, a | a comma outside the quotes that belongs inside the quotes; a period outside the quotes that belongs inside the quotes; | https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/22/arts/television/saturday-night-live-bad-bunny.html |
68 | Even rarer for “S.N.L.,” a filmed segment called “La Era del Descrubimento (The Age of Discovery)” was presented entirely in Spanish. | Descrubimento | Descrubimento is a mispelling of discovery in Spanish, which is spelled Descubrimiento | |
69 | Constructed languages have long offered fandoms a way to escape to other worlds. Now, with the likes the Minions’ gobbledygook and Animal Crossing’s Animalese entering the linguistic arena, utter nonsense is starting new conversations. | likes, the | you need “of” after “the likes.” | |
70 | Cindy McCain, director of the United Nation’s (U.N.) World Food Programme, said that 17 more humanitarian aid trucks have entered Gaza and 40 more are expected to arrive. | Nation’s | It's the United Nations, not the United Nation | |
71 | Chinese state media outlets have hailed Mr. Newsom’s visit for its potential to improve ties, which have been challenged by an escalating disputes over trade, technology and China’s increasingly assertive claims over Taiwan, the island democracy. | an | “an” is a typo/grammatical error in “an escalating disputes.” | https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/25/world/asia/gavin-newsom-china-xi.html |
72 | Buzzfeed is planning to keep First We Feast, the division of Complex responsible for the popular “Hot Ones” interview franchise, after the transaction, one of the people said. First We Feast, which has racked up billions of views on YouTube, will be a part of Buzzfeed’s portfolio of brands focused on food culture, including the recipe guide Tasty. | Buzzfeed | Buzzfeed is spelled BuzzFeed | |
73 | But, all that extra attention also brought a binary choice for those given to instant overreaction. Would it be "Wemby’s a bust," or "Wemby's already a star?" | star | question marks go outside quotation marks when you are asking a question about an in-quotes declaratory statement. | https://theathletic.com/live-blogs/spurs-vs-mavericks-score-live-updates-victor-wembanyama-nba-debut/Vx4NvAI2nMb4/ |
74 | But two experts in Greco-Scythian artifacts said in interviews that the items seized are most likely modern imitations of those crafted by ancient Greeks for Scythian nomads who, in the 4th Century B.C., traversed what is now Ukraine and southern Russia. | Century | You don’t capitalize “century,” | https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/24/world/europe/spain-gold-jewelry-artifacts-ukraine.html |
75 | But Jordan found that when Mr. Netanyahu formed a government late last year, the most far right in recent history, it was less receptive to their warnings that the incidents at the Aqsa Mosque compound was stirring up sentiment inside Palestinian territories that could boil over into violence, according to two Arab officials with knowledge of the relationship. | was | “was” is a subject-verb-agreement error for “were.” | https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/29/world/middleeast/israel-intelligence-hamas-attack.html |
76 | But a detailed visual analysis by The New York Times concludes that the video clip — taken from an Al Jazeera television camera livestreaming on the night of Oct. 17 — shows something else. The missile seen in the video is most likely not what caused the explosion at the hospital. It actually detonated in the sky roughly two miles away, the Times found, and is an unrelated aspect of the fighting that unfolded over the Israeli-Gaza border that night. | The | The Times, not “the Times, | https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/24/world/middleeast/gaza-hospital-israel-hamas-video.html |
77 | Britney Spears wrote in her much-awaited memoir that she had an abortion during her relationship with Justin Timberlake, according to excerpts released Tuesday by People Magazine. | People, Magazine | People Magazine is just called People | https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/17/arts/music/britney-spears-memoir.html |
78 | Breaking News: Frank Howard, the 6-foot-7, 255 pound towering slugger who struck some of baseball's more awesome home runs, died at 87. | 255, pound | 255-pound, not 255 pound | |
79 | Born and raised in Canada, Perry moved to Los Angeles as a teen to become an actor. He found early success, appearing in some of the 1980s most popular sitcoms (“Charles in Charge,” “Silver Spoons,” “Growing Pains”) and dramas (“Highway to Heaven,” “Beverly Hills, 90210”). | 1980s | the 1980s most popular sitcoms” is a typo for “the 1980s’ most popular sitcoms,” | https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/29/arts/television/matthew-perry-shows-movies-streaming.html |
80 | Besides, outlandish tales are undeniably memorable ones, and Beard, a consummate storyteller, finds “ancient gossip” understandably hard to resist. Such stories also free her up to pursue her subject thematically instead chronologically, pointing not just to differences among the emperors but also similarities. The question of succession was central, and because the Roman Empire wasn’t a strictly hereditary system — an emperor could adopt the man he wanted as his successor — this “flexibility” also meant a “potential fight every time power changed hands,” Beard writes. “The Roman Empire was a murderous world” in which killing was a method of problem-solving. | instead, chronologically | Missing “of” after “instead” in “thematically instead chronologically.” | https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/25/books/review/emperor-of-rome-mary-beard.html |
81 | Before tipoff of the San Antonio Spurs-Dallas Mavericks season opener on Wednesday night at Frost Bank Center, the hype that came with Victor Wembanyama’s entry into the NBA Draft seems to have been undersold. | seems, hype | “seems” is a tense error for “seemed; Hype cannot be undersold; the thing that is under- or oversold is the subject of the hype, not the hype itself. | |
82 | Because of Perry’s “celebrity status,” detectives from the Robbery Homicide Division conducted a preliminary investigation, the statement said.
| Division | Style guide violation, division should be lowercased | https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/30/arts/matthew-perry-cause-of-death.html |
83 | Bad Bunny, the Puerto Rican superstar, will serve as both the host and musical guest on “Saturday Night Live” on Saturday. Read our review on his fifth solo album, “Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mafiana.” | on | reviews are of albums, not “on” them. | |
84 | At least 17 people were killed when a passenger train and a freight train collided outside Bangladesh’s capital on Monday. The accident near Dhaka also left over a 100 others wounded, officials said. | 100 | a hundred others is correct, but “a 100 others” is not. It means “a one hundred.” | |
85 | As they planned out this year's event, Gutierrez and his staff knew they would need to be creative to satisfy all of the stakeholders involved.
"We are well aware of the rules the NHL had," Gutierrez said. "We never said we would waver in terms of celebrating. It was just, 'How do we reimagine this? How do we do this?" | this, How | a mismatched '” | |
86 | And The Wall Street Journal editorial board, long a bastion of establishment Republican thought, wrote more than a week into the drama: “As the current mess in choosing another House Speaker shows, never underestimate the ability of Republicans to commit electoral suicide.” | the | “And The Wall Street Journal editorial board” is a bad grammatical error for “And the Wall Street Journal editorial board,” even though the paper is called The Wall Street Journal. | https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/23/us/politics/republicans-speaker-2024-elections.html |
87 | After Representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Democrat of New York, and Senator Ed Markey, Democrat of Massachusetts, unsuccessfully filed “Green New Deal” legislation in 2019 to aggressively cut emissions, move the country toward 100 percent renewable energy and address a host of social issues, Mr. Johnson hit back. | Ocasio, Cortez | Ocasio-Cortez, not Ocasio Cortez | |
88 | After his release, he led protests to oust one its presidents. | one, its | Missing 'of' | |
89 | A spokesman for the WTA said “players have always been equal decision-makers to ensure a strong direction for women’s tennis,” noting recent efforts that will help increase player compensation by $400million ($329m) over the next 10 years. “We’re proud of these efforts and look forward to continuing to have these very important conversations with players and tournaments to keep building a strong future for women’s tennis.” | $329m, $400million | $400 million is not the equivalent of $329 million, . One of those dollar signs is supposed to be in some other currency, which I don’t know. That isn’t the dollar/euro conversion. | https://theathletic.com/5014481/2023/10/30/wta-female-players-letter-push/ |
90 | A possible complicating factor for a full-scale invasion are the subterranean pathways and chambers controlled by Hamas, some as deep as 130 feet below ground and packed with weapons and ammunition. That is where the militant group is holding more than 200 hostages, Israel says. | are | “are” is a subject-verb-agreement error for “is.” When you say that a singular is a plural or a plural is a singular, the verb agrees with the noun that precedes it, not the one following it. | |
91 | A lawyer for JMF Enterprises did not respond to requests for comment. JMF Enterprise's Facebook page posted a vid with news coverage of the payment and included a GIF of an animated Donald J. Trump doing the Running Man dance. Clifford Beem, a partner at Beem & Isley, which represented Fired Up Fabrications, said he was at the law firm's downtown Denver office when a truck driver called to ask about the location of the freight elevator so he could deliver the coins. | Enterprise's | The possessive of JMF Enterprises is JMF Enterprises’, not JMF Enterprise’s, the possessive of JMF Enterprise. | https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/30/us/coins-lawsuit-payment-colorado.html |
92 | A 12-round fight might attract a bigger audience, said Nakisa Bidarian, a co-founder of Most Valuable Productions, which promotes Serrano. “If you put on a more exciting product,” he said. “You will get paid more.” | said, You | Sentence fragment, . This sentence should continue after “said.” | |
93 | "You wanted hell, you will get hell, Maj. Gen. Ghassan Alian of the Israeli Defense Forces warned the residents of Gaza, whom he referred to as "human beasts." | Israeli | They’re called the Israel Defense Forces, not the Israeli Defense Forces. | https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/29/world/middleeast/israel-intelligence-hamas-attack.html |
94 | “Unfortunately tourism is just such a big part of our economy. When something like this happens, the domino effect is catastrophic,” said Jasmine Kilborn, whose business, Holo Holo Maui Tours, specializes in private excursions around the island. The company website still says that travelers can “enjoy at leisure time in Lahaina Town.” Ms. Kilborn, 42, along with the company’s four other employees, are on unemployment. Their business has been decimated, she said. | are | “are” is a bad subject-verb-agreement error for “is,” ; nouns preceded by “along with” are not subjects. | |
95 | “The news of Shani Louk’s death is terrible,” German Chancellor Olaf Scholz wrote on X on Monday afternoon. “Like many others, she was brutally murdered. This shows the full barbarity behind the Hamas attack — who must be held accountable. This is terror, and Israel has the right to defend itself.” | German, Chancellor, Olaf, Scholz | “German Chancellor Olaf Scholz” is a style guide violation (and grammatical error) for “Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany,”. Cities, states or countries do not make the place name part of the title. Mayor Stacy K. Bilko, as an exception, for clarity and state are acceptable in titles. | https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/30/world/middleeast/shani-louk-german-israel-woman-hamas-dead.html |
96 | “The history of French cheese is a love story between men, animals and the earth,” he said.
While former President Charles de Gaulle was said to have grumbled over the difficulty of governing a country with 246 cheeses, Mr. Gaudry’s book — “Let’s Eat France” — puts the number at 1,200. | former | You aren’t a “former President” once you’re dead, as de Gaulle is, . Former implies you are no longer president but are still with us in some other capacity. We do not say “former President Abraham Lincoln.” | |
97 | "So I’m obviously feeling like the black sheep in the family. Like, don’t want to pull up to family gatherings. I have dreadlocks, I dyed them blonde because I seen XXXTentacion had the half-split style. And I was painting my nails black and just like, being a hot mess.” | blonde | “Blonde” is not an adjective. "I seen" is fine because it's a quote. | https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/10/16/style/visual-profile-beenslackin.html |
98 | “Military vehicles and armor were gathering,” he said. “Lots of civilians cars too, which looked like commanders were arriving in the area.” | civilians | civilians cars” is a typo for and misquote of “civilians’ cars.” | |
99 | “In the past, the working class was seen as honorable, loyal, hardworking,” she said, “but that has changed. Still, work and the work ethic are part of the identity there, the pride of place. ” | place | extra space | |
100 | “If you ask a 10-year old boy where he is from, he will tell you the name of their village, its history, their land,” Mr. Keshawi said. “This is the education that passes from the grandfather to father to son. The majority of refugees in Gaza still have the keys, and the papers, to their old homes. And there is an expectation that one day we will go back.” | 10-year, old | “a 10-year old boy” is a typo for “a 10-year-old boy.” | https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/25/world/middleeast/gaza-diaspora-families.html |
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