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You'll find this word showing up in discussions of eyewitness testimony at crime scenes, of lie detectors, and of critical airplane parts. Some of us are most familiar with the fallibility of memory, especially when we remember something clearly that turns out never to have happened. Being fallible is part of being human, and sometimes the biggest errors are made by those who are thought of as the most brilliant of all.
Examples of fallibility in a Sentence
Rob Wells / Made By History, TIME, 25 Sep. 2024
The true conservative acknowledges the fallibility and sinful nature of every human.
—John Hatzis, National Review, 13 Sep. 2024
An upset in family routine and a distracting or stressful experience before or during a drive combined with the fallibility of human memory can be a formula for this type of disaster, says neuroscientist David Diamond, who has studied hot car deaths for two decades.
—Alexandra Rockey Fleming, Peoplemag, 18 July 2024
Similar to other great British poets of the club like Soft Cell's Marc Almond and Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys who mined the elegiac sadness lurking around the edges of nightlife, Charli expertly captures the vulnerability and fallibility that lies behind the party girl persona.
—Hazlitt, 17 July 2024
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“Fallibility.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fallibility. Accessed 2 Oct. 2024.
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