human error

noun

: a person's mistake rather than on the failure of a machine

The accident was blamed on human error.

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More recently, a flood in the Queens-Midtown tunnel—caused by human error from a crew working nearby—temporarily closed one of the busiest throughways in a city that nearly 1 million people commute into every day. —

Andrew Anagnost, Fortune, 4 Dec. 2024 The death of a 2-year-old western lowland gorilla at a Canadian zoo earlier this month was found to be the result of human error, the zoo announced. —

Gabriella Rudy, NBC News, 26 Nov. 2024 After discovering a human error with its vote tabulation machines, Milwaukee is recounting more than 30,000 absentee ballots that had already been processed, city officials announced Tuesday evening. —

Maia Pandey, Journal Sentinel, 5 Nov. 2024 While mistakes do happen at times when votes are counted, those are typically a result of simple human error, not foul play, and there are processes in place to catch and fix them, officials said. —

Joedy McCreary, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for human error