This sentence appeared in an online article:
(The newspaper’s) reporting honed in on a set of emails....
It should be ‘homed in’, of course.
This probably isn’t a mistake you make. Lots of people do, though.
What’s more worrying is the misleading information you might find if you look up the correct usage of ‘honed’ and ‘homed in’. And, true to form, other sources copy the error and it spreads ….
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