How to Use human error in a Sentence

human error

noun
  • A lot of these issues boil down to good old-fashioned human error.
    Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 23 Jan. 2025
  • There was a time when people could accept that human error was a part of the life deal.
    Colin Fleming, Chicago Tribune, 9 Feb. 2025
  • But the cool part about baseball, too, is there’s also human error.
    Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2026
  • The hospital group could not confirm if the false alarm was due to human error.
    David Ferrara, Cincinnati Enquirer, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Even the best washer and dryer are subject to human error.
    Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 9 Jan. 2026
  • They are also sold as tools that will eliminate human bias or human error.
    Lorena O'Neil, Rolling Stone, 12 Aug. 2023
  • There was no fraud, just human error — which would soon be publicly confirmed through a hand count of the county’s ballots.
    Doug Bock Clark, ProPublica, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Most attacks rely on simple tricks and human error, not advanced hacking skills.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 4 July 2025
  • Because smart contracts are immutable, human error is quite punitive.
    Solo Ceesay, Rolling Stone, 2 May 2023
  • Because many attacks stem from human error, train employees on safe mobile practices and how to spot threats.
    Mike Rosen, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Accidents, human error, harsh weather, and actions during wartime are among the things that could send a ship to the bottom.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026
  • These and many other episodes make clear that AI has not ended the role of human error in road accidents.
    IEEE Spectrum, 30 July 2023
  • With that many names to get through, human error could take away valuable seconds from a graduate's walk across the stage, Burch said.
    Kendall Staton The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 25 May 2026
  • City spokesperson Mike Lyster said that document was wrong because of a human error.
    Michael Slaten, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024
  • Collectors like Robey knew that any multistep printing process was prone to human error.
    Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Not perfectly so—nothing in life is a completely sure bet, and human error can and has led to a handful of genuine tragedies.
    Literary Hub, 11 June 2026
  • Many of the incident reports blame human error and inattention.
    USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Near misses in aviation are almost always the result of human error.
    Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Officials still have not determined if the signal change was a technical or human error.
    Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner, 4 June 2023
  • Hutson said those who were on duty during Bryan’s release will be called in for questioning, as this was a human error.
    Rebecca Cohen, NBC news, 26 July 2025
  • There’s human error too—sometimes students drop things through the floor, and that imperfection causes a way for the sound to reflect.
    Charlotte Hu, Popular Science, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The investigation also ruled out human error and found no evidence of drones over the target line or of birds in its flight path.
    Erika I. Ritchie, Oc Register, 15 Mar. 2026
  • This was a release packaging issue caused by human error, not a security breach.
    Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 1 Apr. 2026
  • This was a release packaging issue caused by human error, not a security breach.
    Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 31 Mar. 2026
  • While your bag may be flagged as part of a random security measure, the majority of the time, it gets flagged due to human error.
    Jillian Dara, Travel + Leisure, 4 Apr. 2026
  • In an attempt to eliminate human error, this great sport has introduced human error.
    Mirjam Swanson, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
  • The highly sophisticated system seems to stretch the limits of just how far human error can be reduced.
    Matt Bradley, NBC news, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Simple human error always posed some risk, but as science advanced those small risks were ever more mitigated.
    Literary Hub, 11 June 2026
  • The core of the problem likely lay not in any issues with materials, Iskander says, but in human error.
    Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 7 July 2026
  • The government has blamed human error, and a railway official was charged with manslaughter.
    Costas Kantouris and Nicholas Paphitis, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Mar. 2023

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