fallible
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Clemency used to be a consistent failsafe for an often fallible system.
From Slate • Mar. 6, 2026
So long as human bodies are fallible to disease, we will need labs studying viruses, bacteria, fungi and parasites to see which ones could cause major problems.
From Salon • Feb. 28, 2026
Bentley leveled the playing field by creating a fallible detective against whom the reader could compete.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
Every person and system is fallible, but there’s no substitute for instinct — can a robot achieve that kind of intelligence?
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2026
Montaigne, too, was right—right to think that the men and women of his day were hopelessly fallible when it came to understanding the world.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing fallible
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