as in imperfect
capable of making mistakes or being wrong
She was a perfectionist who failed to realize that humans are inherently fallible.
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Recent Examples of fallible
The last three weeks have shown vulnerabilities that make the Bills fallible, from questions about coach Sean McDermott’s clock management decisions in a loss to the Rams to concerns about their defense after Goff’s big game.
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Andrew Greif, NBC News, 16 Dec. 2024
But several challenges can arise in maintaining accurate records:
• Subjectivity: Human memory can be fallible, and recollections of events may vary.
—Beth Worthy, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
Human ideas may partake of eternal truths, but they are applied by fallible individuals within a particular time and a particular place.
—Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 30 Dec. 2024
But within its thriller-like trappings is also a complicated meditation on how such a demand rests on the shoulders of men and women who are human, and therefore fallible.
—Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 30 Oct. 2024
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Andrew Greif, NBC News, 16 Dec. 2024
But several challenges can arise in maintaining accurate records:
• Subjectivity: Human memory can be fallible, and recollections of events may vary.
—Beth Worthy, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
Human ideas may partake of eternal truths, but they are applied by fallible individuals within a particular time and a particular place.
—Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 30 Dec. 2024
But within its thriller-like trappings is also a complicated meditation on how such a demand rests on the shoulders of men and women who are human, and therefore fallible.
—Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 30 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fallible
Adjective
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Measuring real estate loss from the fires is, at best, an imperfect exercise laden with assumptions about property value and the interpretation of data that was not collected for that purpose.—
Doug Smith,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Feb. 2025
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The results are often imperfect, so the designs usually have to be tweaked in apps like Canva.—
Megan Sauer,
CNBC,
20 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Excellence is achievable, but perfection is flawed thinking, impossible to attain.—
Bryan Robinson,
Forbes,
18 Feb. 2025
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Pasteur coolly replied that Pouchet’s spontaneous generation experiments were fatally flawed.—
Carl Zimmer,
New York Times,
17 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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In a statement to Digital Trends, LG said the LED TVs, which weigh up to 101.2 pounds with stands, aren't defective on their own.—
Scharon Harding,
Ars Technica,
13 Jan. 2023
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Jurors in Gwinnett County, northeast of Atlanta, returned the verdict in the years-long civil case involving what the plaintiffs’ lawyers called dangerously defective roofs on Ford pickup trucks, lawyer James Butler Jr. said.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Aug. 2022
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“Fallible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fallible. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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