fallible

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Recent Examples of fallible Maybe the most contentious issue ever to divide these two camps is whether or not to replace notoriously inaccurate human home plate umpires with less fallible machines. Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 21 Feb. 2025 And democracy is incredibly fallible with a bunch of fallible people. Sean Illing, Vox, 1 Feb. 2025 Government is as fallible as the people who run it. Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 28 Jan. 2025 Although guided by Judeo-Christian principles, these men composed a fallible document, inspired not by the divine but by human beings. Chicago Tribune, 21 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for fallible
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Adjective
  • Interest has risen in wild, imperfect lawn alternatives, including tapestry lawns, made up of low-growing and colorful plants that require little or no mowing (up 16%), and no-mow meadows of native grasses (up 12%).
    Mike Snider, USA Today, 26 May 2025
  • This approval—for Tesla’s imperfect $99-a-month technology and other AV systems—could come as early as next year.
    Carlton Reid, Forbes.com, 26 May 2025
Adjective
  • In every case, flawed data doesn’t just slow down hiring.
    Hariharan Kolam, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025
  • The logic Daly uses to justify not making changes is just so inherently flawed.
    Pierre LeBrun, New York Times, 5 June 2025
Adjective
  • That leads estate planners to recommend to some clients an intentionally defective grantor trust (IDGT).
    Bob Carlson, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
  • The parts planning team, which uses a separate system with different data, mistakenly orders a big batch of the now defective parts before getting the update.
    Sean O'Neill, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025

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“Fallible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fallible. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.

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