Archibald MacLeish
Synonyms
Noun (1)
- blemish
- blight
- blotch
- defect
- deformity
- disfigurement
- excrescence
- excrescency
- fault
- imperfection
- mar
- mark
- pockmark
- scar
Verb
Examples of flaw in a Sentence
Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2023
Believing the school’s investigation was flawed, San Jose State’s swim coach, Sage Hopkins, repeatedly re-reported the allegations to campus administrators, federal agencies, the NCAA, the Mountain West Conference and other entities.
—Kenny Jacoby, USA TODAY, 15 Aug. 2023
Believing the school’s investigation was flawed, San Jose State’s swim coach, Sage Hopkins, repeatedly re-reported the allegations to campus administrators, federal agencies, the NCAA, the Mountain West Conference and other entities over the next decade.
—Kenny Jacoby, USA TODAY, 4 Aug. 2023
Martha Bennett, principal analyst at Forrester Research, said these motivations in themselves were flawed.
—Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Crypto, 27 July 2023
Each inspection requires two months to dismantle the engine, replace the discs (if flawed), and reassemble them.
—Popular Mechanics, 27 July 2023
The chief problem, the notice said, is that the EPA’s 2015 standards are flawed, inadequately administered and are allowing substandard devices to be certified, thus creating more pollution and deceiving consumers.
—Yereth Rosen, Anchorage Daily News, 13 July 2023
For some who have followed the case, the Supreme Court ruling was the culmination of a process that has been flawed at every step of the way.
—Joe Heim, Washington Post, 6 July 2023
According to the authors of the rebuttal, the dating technique that had been used for the 2018 findings had been flawed, resulting in the possible overestimation of the arts’ age.
—Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 21 June 2023
Leah Askarinam, ABC News, 20 Sep. 2023
China’s lack of diversionary behavior also highlights a flaw in the logic of waging a diversionary war.
—M. Taylor Fravel, Foreign Affairs, 15 Sep. 2023
The Biden administration says the Trump-era Interior Department did not perform a sufficient environmental analysis for the leasing program under the National Environmental Policy Act, among other flaws.
—Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Sep. 2023
Bloomberg Grounded Airlines around the world are scrambling to determine the full extent of a manufacturing flaw in some of their Airbus jets.
—Peter Vanham, Fortune, 13 Sep. 2023
To me, one of the fundamental flaws of artificial intelligence in health care is its overreliance on big data, such as medical records, imaging and biomarker values, while ignoring the small data.
—Fay Cobb Payton, Scientific American, 12 Sep. 2023
There’s no doubt that Trump is a populist, but there’s nothing inherently populist about, say, his appalling conduct after the 2020 election, which had to do with his character flaws, not any political ideology.
—The Editors, National Review, 8 Sep. 2023
Childs Walker: Hamilton is a good call, because his versatility will be essential to patching over this team’s defensive flaws.
—Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 7 Sep. 2023
In the following months, Altman and his collaborators at Berkeley found a subtle flaw in the reasoning.
—Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 11 Sep. 2023
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Word History
Noun (1) and Verb
Middle English, flake, from Old Norse flaga stone slab, moldar flaga thin layer of turf; akin to Old English flōh flat stone
Noun (2)
of Scandinavian origin; akin to Norwegian flaga gust, squall
Noun (1)
1586, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
Verb
1610, in the meaning defined at transitive sense
Noun (2)
1513, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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“Flaw.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flaw. Accessed 25 Sep. 2023.
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