fallible

Example Sentences

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Assuming a more pedestrian, scaled-down, appropriate-for-the-setting look, by contrast, can communicate seriousness — but can also remind jurors and other observers, perhaps inconveniently, that megacelebrities are, after all, just frail and fallible humans like everyone else.

From Washington Post

Bakersfield Police Chief Greg Terry said neither the department nor the city conceded that police procedures were fallible in agreeing to the deal.

From Los Angeles Times

But if eyewitness testimony is fallible, Loftus explained, it is also potent.

From New York Times

The government and its reports are the work of people, and as such are fallible.

From Salon

West’s book shows the problems with appointing fallible human beings to offer succor to parishioners even as they battle their own demons — in Samuel’s case, irrepressible rage and hubris.

From Washington Post