acknowledgment of error
Example Sentences
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Of course, a public official’s acknowledgment of error doesn’t necessarily absolve them of accountability.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 2022
If his comments weren’t strictly an apology, they at least were an acknowledgment of error.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 19, 2016
Even rarer in some ways was the frank public acknowledgment of error by the hospital, followed by a sincere apology from her doctor.
From Time Magazine Archive
Plainly the latter was seeking to compel an acknowledgment of error, but Will only patted the mouse-colored flanks.
From Last of the Great Scouts : the life story of Col. William F. Cody, "Buffalo Bill" as told by his sister by Helen Cody Wetmore
Surely now a frank acknowledgment of error deserves a milder epithet than meanness.
From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Vol I, No. 2, February 1810 by S. C. (Stephen Cullen) Carpenter
