as in unfailing
not being or likely to be wrong
an unerring taste in interior decoration
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Recent Examples of unerring
Cooper has unerring showbiz instincts.
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Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 10 Oct. 2025
The tale she’s lived to tell emerges, for all its crotchety complaints, from a place of unerring loyalty.
—Mark Leibovich, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2025
There’s a Shakespearean grandeur to David King, the all-powerful New York music-label boss who’s famous for his unerring ability to spot rising talent.
—Tim Grierson, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2025
The South Korean master’s two most recent features, the sumptuous erotic period piece The Handmaiden and the intricate neo-noir romance Decision to Leave, showed him at the height of his powers, an elevated genre director with unerring control.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 10 Oct. 2025
The tale she’s lived to tell emerges, for all its crotchety complaints, from a place of unerring loyalty.
—Mark Leibovich, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2025
There’s a Shakespearean grandeur to David King, the all-powerful New York music-label boss who’s famous for his unerring ability to spot rising talent.
—Tim Grierson, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2025
The South Korean master’s two most recent features, the sumptuous erotic period piece The Handmaiden and the intricate neo-noir romance Decision to Leave, showed him at the height of his powers, an elevated genre director with unerring control.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unerring
Adjective
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The young monarch is thought to have spent an hour alone before taking up her duties with the unfailing stoicism that would come to define her historic reign.—
Hope Coke,
Vanity Fair,
7 Feb. 2026
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And her unfailing ability to give the perfect little sardonic wink and nod extends beyond her social media content and even beyond her impeccable performances in projects like Netflix's Too Much.—
Meg Walters,
InStyle,
4 Jan. 2026
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Trump remains popular among his base and remarkably infallible in the eyes of his loyalist administration and still commands extraordinary deference from many leaders in his party.—
Kevin Rector,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Feb. 2026
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Teaching moment As significant as Hughes’ impact on the team since the mid-December blockbuster trade has been, the star defenseman isn’t infallible.—
Joe Smith,
New York Times,
3 Feb. 2026
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Niseko Village is also home to an international ski school, a handful of brilliant restaurants, an outdoor activity park that’s perfect for summer, and two golf courses.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
26 Feb. 2026
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Cooper's game-winning catch at Penn State is a perfect example of that.—
Joe Nguyen,
Denver Post,
26 Feb. 2026
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Upgrade to brushes that deliver a flawless, streak-free makeup application.—
Tory Johnson,
ABC News,
24 Feb. 2026
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For most of the night, the Jayhawks were flawless in forcing Houston’s guards into hard shots and keeping star freshman Kingston Flemings from getting into the paint or hitting his patented pull-up jumper.—
CJ Moore,
New York Times,
24 Feb. 2026
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Yet there are realities of life without constant and reliable electricity beyond evenings by candlelight.—
Sophia Panych,
Allure,
24 Feb. 2026
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The second focuses on inclusion with companies committing to strengthening testing and evaluation of AI systems across underrepresented languages and cultural contexts, especially in the Global South, so that frontier AI models become more reliable and accessible beyond English‑speaking markets.—
Beatrice Nolan,
Fortune,
23 Feb. 2026
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“Unerring.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unerring. Accessed 27 Feb. 2026.
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