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But that assumption too could be in error.

From Textbooks Apr. 19, 2023

Since most prefer to avoid lowering their self-regard, people are more likely to come up with elaborate rationalizations to maintain a current position than acknowledge that view may be in error.

From Salon Sep. 13, 2021

Typically, the court grants emergency appeals when a majority of the justices think the lower court ruling may be in error and may cause real harm in the interim.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 29, 2015

If so, then the apparent decrease in tornadoes shown on the official plot could be in error.

From New York Times Dec. 9, 2013

The elegance and grandeur of the theory, however, persuaded him that the observations must be in error, a conclusion drawn when the observations are unobliging by many other theorists in the history of science.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan




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