err

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Recent Examples of err The University of Oregon alumnus was adjudged to have erred while moving through a gap between Germany’s Robert Farken and Stefan Nillessen late in the heat, with an appeal by USA Track & Field denied. Jack Bantock, CNN Money, 21 Sep. 2025 Tran moved to dismiss the charges and his lawyers argued before the Supreme Judicial Court this year that he is entitled to legislative immunity and that a prosecutor erred by excluding from deliberation a grand juror who expressed a potential political bias. State House News Service, Boston Herald, 11 Sep. 2025 As such, there are certain similarities with erring politicians who some believe become undone by a mixture of various traits that tends not to exist in the wider population. Roger Trapp, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025 Ricardo Valadez was granted custody of the couple's four children by two separate Waukesha County judges, first in 2020 and again in 2022 after an appellate court said the first judge erred in his decision. Bridget Fogarty, jsonline.com, 8 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for err
Recent Examples of Synonyms for err
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  • This summer, a Florida man stumbled on a wrecked vessel while fishing with his grandson – possibly a 19th-century ship designed to carry rum.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 8 Oct. 2025
  • One day while in City Bowl, a residential neighborhood in Cape Town, Kienle Gonzalez stumbled across a 1920s Arts and Crafts home at the foot of the mountainside.
    Sophia Herring, Architectural Digest, 8 Oct. 2025
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  • During the 2022 incident, an unknown person motioned toward Newton to arrest Mitchell for trespassing.
    Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Denver7 reported that authorities had received three reports of a suspicious person trespassing on private properties along State Highway 103 this week, including two properties on Peaceful Valley Lane in Idaho Springs on Monday.
    John Aguilar, Denver Post, 26 Sep. 2025
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  • Coming off an open week, the Cardinal (2-4, 1-2) forced a three-and-out on defense to start the game, but Liam Thorpe fumbled the ensuing punt return to give possession back to the Mustangs (4-2, 2-0).
    Harold Gutmann, Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The Razorbacks fumbled 4 times and lost 3, including 2 in Tennessee territory.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 12 Oct. 2025
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  • The southernmost individual on record lives in the Sierra Gorda of Querétaro, just 200 kilometers from Mexico City, while the northernmost populations wander the Arctic coasts in northern Canada and Alaska.
    Ganesh Marín, The Dial, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The mind could wander briefly about the Giants riding a two-game winning streak into a Thursday Night Football matchup with the Eagles, equipped to knock off their tormentors who suddenly look vulnerable.
    Dan Duggan, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
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  • The boy stopped the chase after the child tripped, the other boy told deputies, according to the sheriff’s office.
    Julia Marnin, Miami Herald, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Michkov took a tripping penalty in the game’s first minute in what was his most noticeable moment.
    Kevin Kurz, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Try to find a place that will block blowing or falling debris.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 12 Oct. 2025
  • However, compared to his older stepbrothers, his net worth falls a little bit short.
    StyleCaster Editors, StyleCaster, 12 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Dodgers manager Dave Roberts blundered in his late bullpen choices, allowing the Phillies to make it 4-3 in the ninth inning, which is the way the game ended.
    Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Did Netanyahu blunder into the most dangerous rupture in U.S.–Israel relations since Dwight Eisenhower forced Israel out of Sinai?
    Dan Perry, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Mina Self Oversized Plaid Blazer A plaid blazer is a fall classic that feels fresh without straying too far from timeless.
    Rosie Marder, Travel + Leisure, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Balenciaga strays away from a more experimental fashion approach the maison has been pushing under Demna, but also under its founder.
    Alex Wynne, Footwear News, 5 Oct. 2025

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“Err.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/err. Accessed 14 Oct. 2025.

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