How to Use fallibility in a Sentence
fallibility
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That kind of freedom and fallibility is, to them, a form of beauty.
—Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Aug. 2022
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The result of this very human fallibility is blood on the streets.
—Bryan Walsh, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
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What’s amazing is how stubborn the brain is in its fallibility.
—Matthew Hutson, WSJ, 7 Aug. 2022
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At the same time, our fallibility is steeped in the stain of sin and imperfect appetites.
—Tod Worner, National Review, 25 Oct. 2020
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In her view, the fallibility of the show’s characters makes the story feel true-to-life.
—Emily McClanathan, Chicago Tribune, 10 May 2025
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The piece is a strange paean to the fact of journalistic fallibility.
—The New Yorker, 17 June 2021
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The path toward forgiveness runs right through the heart of his fallibility.
—Amy Dickinson, Anchorage Daily News, 13 June 2018
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Thanks to clever hackers and human fallibility, passwords are just too easy to steal or defeat.
—David Hamilton, Anchorage Daily News, 4 May 2023
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The fallibility of draft analysis drives much of the event’s appeal.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2022
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Who doesn’t want a better understanding of the fallibility of the people who brought you up?
—K.j. Yossman, Variety, 3 June 2026
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Finding moments of laughter with fallibility seems to just work.
—Bylaurie Shakur, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
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But acknowledging the fallibility of your own metaknowledge is a good place to start.
—Tommy Blanchard, The Conversation, 13 May 2026
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Both China and the rest of the world would be somewhat safer if party chiefs were to acknowledge their fallibility.
—The Economist, 3 Oct. 2019
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Trump did win, of course, and his victory highlights the inherent fallibility of polls.
—Sue Halpern, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2020
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Baseball is a game of fractions of time and space that puts into play a restless pursuit of dominion over fallibility.
—The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 6 Mar. 2025
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The film is a meditation on both the fallibility and the power of memory.
—Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023
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The logical premise here is not the precedent of human savvy but an analogy to human fallibility.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2023
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Its title track features reverb-heavy vocals and a slow build to guitar peels, finding power in fallibility.
—Melena Ryzik, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2023
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But for all of the mind's fallibility, there are some things that can make its flashbulbs go off like a pack of paparazzi on the tail of a TikTok star.
—Annie White, Car and Driver, 14 Dec. 2020
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Their intent was to make the criminal code more forgiving of human fallibility.
—Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 8 July 2019
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There was an initial burst of excitement, quickly tempered by an emphasis on the tests' fallibility.
—Elizabeth Gulino, refinery29.com, 17 Aug. 2020
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And right now, American audiences can’t get enough of that fallibility.
—Dan Bilefsky, HollywoodReporter, 21 Mar. 2026
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Whether they’re called bugs, worms, daemons, or gremlins, these unpredictable pests in the machines remind us of not only our fallibility, but our hubris.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 23 Oct. 2024
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There is always surprise, human fallibility, and even, on rare occasion, the presence of the divine.
—Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2022
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And yet the Swedish Academy may have abused the privilege of fallibility.
—David Remnick, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2022
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Wednesday was grating, the first sign of fallibility for a floppy-haired fourth pitcher who in his brief Astros career had been anything but.
—Chandler Rome, Houston Chronicle, 19 Apr. 2018
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Wednesday’s pullback was a reminder to investors of the fallibility of the tech trade, which has dominated the latest leg of the nine-year bull market.
—Akane Otani, WSJ, 5 Sep. 2018
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Ritrovata is to be reminded afresh of the tangibility of film, not to mention its fallibility.
—Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
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There’s joy in the algorithm’s fallibility, the security that machine learning doesn’t yet know me.
—Katherine Bernard, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2019
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The legal issues are those of recklessness and negligence with a firearm; the human issues are about fallibility and remorse.
—Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2021
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