fallible

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Recent Examples of fallible 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 For the first time since Arne Slot’s arrival, Liverpool have looked fallible in recent weeks. Darren Richman, The Athletic, 20 Jan. 2025 None of this will stop tattoo enthusiasts from continuing to request designs explicitly tied to fallible artists and celebrities, O’Mahony says. Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 16 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for fallible
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fallible
Adjective
  • But in reality, leadership is learned—and lived—at the dinner table; in the car ride to practice; during the messy, imperfect, real moments of daily life.
    Leisse Wilcox, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
  • Nadal and the third member of the Big Three, Novak Djokovic, arrived on tour with mediocre serves and imperfect physiques.
    Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 15 May 2025
Adjective
  • This approach is flawed and increasingly dangerous for people and the economy.
    Nina Seega, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
  • Petition gathering is flawed, to be sure, but many mistakes are out of carelessness, not fraud, and laws already exist to punish willful violators.
    Steve Bousquet, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 May 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 21 May. 2025.

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