errors

plural of error
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Recent Examples of errors During the ship’s christening, reservations to the specialty dining restaurants were hard to come by due to technical issues and scheduling errors, which will hopefully be ironed out when the next group sets sail. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026 The researchers conducted experiments that produced distinct brainwave patterns depending on whether there was a reward prediction error, a state prediction error, or both errors simultaneously. — New Atlas, 4 Oct. 2026 This requirement will keep AI recommendations consistent with current standards of care, reduce prescription errors, and improve patient safety. — Esha Desai, Hartford Courant, 4 Oct. 2026 On Friday, the Rams waived punt returner Xavier Smith, who fumbled in last season’s NFC championship game and made several decision-making errors against the Broncos. — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2026 People in crisis have the least power to refuse a technology, contest its errors, or walk away from it. — Jeannie Annan, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026 Many newer business owners still use spreadsheets or pen and paper to record transactions, even though manual bookkeeping can be time-consuming and lead to more errors. — Carson Brunson, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2026 Georgia needed only 24 offensive plays to storm out to a 28-0 halftime lead as its defense forced and feasted on Oklahoma errors. — Mike Griffith, AJC.com, 27 Sep. 2026 However, doing so degrades the signal and leads to data-reading errors. — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 27 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for errors
Noun
  • And not all of the proofs were certified as correct by the automatic logic verification platform Lean—in fact, some have already been retracted after outside scientists found mistakes.
    — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Programmers showed it sorting email, spotting writing mistakes and even playing games.
    — Wen Shao, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • New York City has policies that limit local law enforcement from sharing certain information with federal officers or honoring detainer requests unless immigrants have been convicted of violent crimes.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 10 Oct. 2026
  • This is now the third time Byron will appear before a Florida judge to answer for his crimes.
    — Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 10 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • The company has also been sued by the parents of kids who took their own lives, alleging that ChatGPT encouraged suicide and harmful delusions.
    — James Peckham, PC Magazine, 5 Oct. 2026
  • The Mayo Clinic defines the mental health condition as typically marked by hallucinations, delusions, depression, and mania.
    — Leigh Blickley, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • The league usually hides these blunders behind closed doors and quiet internal grading-system tweaks.
    — Alejandro Avila OutKick, FOXNews.com, 5 Oct. 2026
  • But as the initial euphoria of the rescue has subsided, officials have begun to raise difficult questions and trade accusations about the security blunders that could have led to a major disaster.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 4 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • All violations would carry a maximum sentence of life in prison.
    — Shelby Talcott, semafor.com, 6 Oct. 2026
  • When Newt Gingrich lost support because of ethics violations and the GOP's poor showing in an election, Republicans elected Hastert to succeed him.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 6 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • The Delphic oracle was not a myth Amid the myths and fiction of ancient Greece, the Delphic oracle was very much a historical fact.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 9 Oct. 2026
  • So immigration stories get softened over time, with trauma turning into adventure and hard facts blurred into entertaining myths.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • The sins of 2003 were not merely in launching a war but also in how the story was told and masked.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Kaporos is intended to symbolize the transfer of one’s sins to a chicken.
    — Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 20 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • The Hering and Wundt illusions are examples of how straight lines can appear curved if intersecting lines cross them at a certain angle.
    — Emma Gometz, Scientific American, 22 Sep. 2026
  • In each case, however, modern physics has shown these assumptions to be illusions.
    — Adam Frank, NPR, 14 Sep. 2026

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“Errors.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/errors. Accessed 11 Oct. 2026.

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