error

Example Sentences

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Any attempt to intercept the quantum signals disturbs them, creating detectable errors that alert users to possible eavesdropping.

From Science Daily

In addition, dietary information was self-reported, which can introduce measurement error.

From Science Daily

A spokesperson for Somerset NHS Foundation Trust apologised to those affected and said they were working "to ensure payment errors are kept to a minimum".

From BBC

Wiseman has spent a career probing the complex inner workings and painfully human errors of America’s establishments, but in marriage itself, he may have found the most fraught, mysterious and unreformable institution of all.”

From Los Angeles Times

Tschofenig, 23, had comfortably qualified for Saturday's final but his Winter Olympics medal hopes were dashed due to an error with his kit.

From BBC