How to Use human error in a Sentence
human error
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These and many other episodes make clear that AI has not ended the role of human error in road accidents.
— IEEE Spectrum, 30 July 2023 -
Then human error abruptly forced me from my sound cocoon.
— WIRED, 13 June 2023 -
There’s human error too—sometimes students drop things through the floor, and that imperfection causes a way for the sound to reflect.
— Charlotte Hu, Popular Science, 7 Sep. 2023 -
Overall, about 60% of all rail accidents happen in rail yards, and of those, more than half are caused by human factors or human error, the AAR says.
— Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2023 -
City spokesperson Mike Lyster said that document was wrong because of a human error.
— Michael Slaten, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024 -
They are also sold as tools that will eliminate human bias or human error.
— Lorena O'Neil, Rolling Stone, 12 Aug. 2023 -
The review made clear that Jackson’s water crisis was not the result of one bad weather event or a single case of human error or even short-term neglect.
— Joshua Lott, Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2023 -
But for now, the problem is that identifying fake news is a manual process prone to human error and the duress of news-cycle urgency.
— Martin J. O'Malley and Peter L. Levin, Foreign Affairs, 5 Jan. 2017 -
However, the council also cautioned the method could be subject to human error if samples are tainted in the field or mislabeled in the lab.
— Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 22 Mar. 2023 -
Investigators blamed the collision on human error and said the two trains were running on the same line for 12 minutes, or a distance of about 11 miles, when the head-on crash occurred.
— Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 5 Mar. 2023 -
The incidents often occur at or near airports and are the result of human error, the agency’s internal records show.
— Emily Steel, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2023 -
And human error is common with condom use — in one study, 25.3% of people reported unrolling the condom before putting it on.
— Sophie Saint Thomas, refinery29.com, 3 Apr. 2024 -
Collectors like Robey knew that any multistep printing process was prone to human error.
— Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Nov. 2023 -
The final cause of such incidents is human error, where a lack of training or diligence may mean that medical staffers miss a patient’s vital signs.
— Victoria Bisset, Washington Post, 13 June 2023 -
Many of the incident reports blame human error and inattention.
— USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2024 -
This human error, coupled with the snake’s ability to grow rapidly, and lay as many as 100 eggs at a time, is the reason the Everglades is now overrun by the opportunistic creature.
— Victoria Malloy, TIME, 15 Oct. 2024 -
Near misses in aviation are almost always the result of human error.
— Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 23 Aug. 2023 -
The government has blamed human error, and a railway official was charged with manslaughter.
— Costas Kantouris and Nicholas Paphitis, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Mar. 2023 -
Christine Jeffs’ edge-of-your-seat medical thriller unpacks the perilous aftermath of a single human error.
— Zoe Guy, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2024 -
Yes, because human error gets in the way of proper brushing with a manual model, explains Dr. Kutlay.
— Barbara Bellesi Zito, Peoplemag, 19 June 2023 -
Officials still have not determined if the signal change was a technical or human error.
— Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner, 4 June 2023 -
Some moderation issues could be the result of human error.
— WIRED, 17 Mar. 2023 -
Some studies have found a greater increase in medical mistakes caused by human error, and an increase in fatal car crashes during the week following the spring time change.
— Catherine Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Mar. 2023 -
Election conspiracists blamed the issue on electronic poll books rather than the real culprit: human error.
— David Gilbert, WIRED, 6 Mar. 2024 -
Over the summer, a human error caused Voyager 2’s antenna to tilt two degrees away from Earth, leading researchers to lose contact with the craft for more than a week before its functions returned to normal.
— Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Dec. 2023 -
Because smart contracts are immutable, human error is quite punitive.
— Solo Ceesay, Rolling Stone, 2 May 2023 -
But overall, these were cases that appear largely, if not exclusively, to be issues of human error.
— Scott MacFarlane, CBS News, 29 June 2023 -
Also, a recent study found an almost 19% increase in adverse medical events related to human error in the week after switching to DST.
— Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al, 10 Mar. 2023 -
It is estimated that, by next year over half of significant cyber incidents will be caused by human error or skill shortages1.
— Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Apr. 2024 -
His work aims to understand and minimize human error in forensic science and medicolegal decision-making.
— Jeff Kukucka, Scientific American, 26 Oct. 2024
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