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Rule "that vs than"

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Description: that vs than
Message: Did you mean than?
Category: Commonly Confused Words (ID: CONFUSED_WORDS)
Incorrect sentences
that this rule can detect:
  • It must be greater that 10 meters.
    Correction suggestion: than
Correct sentences
for comparison:
  • The more that one coin produces results that favor heads, the more confident we can become that it is “fixed” and we aren’t having “weird luck”.
  • Better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.
  • It was then a few years later that two entrepreneurs from Chattanooga ...
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Check the following text against just this rule:

ID: THAT_THAN [1]
Version: 6.5-SNAPSHOT (2024-04-24 22:33:07 +0200)