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)
I have offered you the only redress which I could make even after a meeting, viz., an acknowledgment of error when convinced of that error.
From Robert Toombs Statesman, Speaker, Soldier, Sage by Stovall, Pleasant A.
