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clerical error



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On Monday, Rana refiled the lawsuit in New York state court, with his lawyer attributing the weeklong takedown to a clerical error.

From The Wall Street Journal May 9, 2026

Whether the tweet was a confession or a clerical error, travel experts say the advice on how to avoid surprise price jumps is a relic of a simpler internet.

From MarketWatch Apr. 20, 2026

The changes come more than a week after federal regulators ordered California’s Department of Motor Vehicles to cancel about 13,000 such licenses due to a clerical error.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 17, 2026

That itself might have just been a sloppy clerical error.

From Slate Jan. 14, 2026

A clerical error early in the war, when food was still getting through to prisoners, had caused the Red Cross to ship them five hundred parcels every month instead of fifty.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut




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