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
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 Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen)
From beginning to end we observe it to be an account of shortcomings and their results; we find the acknowledgment of error in the very statement of the transaction.
From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Snider, Denton Jaques
