Recently, a headline appeared in a London tabloid: “Missing Woman Remains Found.” It’s a solecism, of course. (Carmela Ciuraru, “Laura van den Berg’s ‘Find Me.’” The New York Times, 2/27/2015.)
This word can also be a synonym for error, mistake and misuse when used in the sense of an ungrammatical combination of words in a sentence or blunder in speech.
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