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You'll find this word showing up in discussions of eyewitness testimony at crime scenes, of lie detectors, and of critical airplane parts. Some of us are most familiar with the fallibility of memory, especially when we remember something clearly that turns out never to have happened. Being fallible is part of being human, and sometimes the biggest errors are made by those who are thought of as the most brilliant of all.
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Uncovering and properly assessing secrets is hard at the best of times; human fallibility guarantees that there will be errors in process and analysis.
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David V. Gioe, Foreign Affairs, 2 July 2025
Over the past 10 years, the summit has seen consistent demand from surgeons and others eager to learn how to leverage systems, flatten hierarchies, optimize culture, and confront human fallibility.
—Richard Menger Md Mpa, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
The best leaders have always gone to great lengths to remember their own fallibility.
—Gautam Mukunda, Twin Cities, 27 July 2025
What has made Superman endure culturally since 1938 is his humanity — his fallibility and compassion — a fact which Corenswet gets to elucidate in a moving, climactic speech.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 8 July 2025
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David V. Gioe, Foreign Affairs, 2 July 2025
Over the past 10 years, the summit has seen consistent demand from surgeons and others eager to learn how to leverage systems, flatten hierarchies, optimize culture, and confront human fallibility.
—Richard Menger Md Mpa, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
The best leaders have always gone to great lengths to remember their own fallibility.
—Gautam Mukunda, Twin Cities, 27 July 2025
What has made Superman endure culturally since 1938 is his humanity — his fallibility and compassion — a fact which Corenswet gets to elucidate in a moving, climactic speech.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 8 July 2025
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“Fallibility.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fallibility. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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