You'll find this word showing up in discussions of eyewitness testimony at crime scenes, of lie detectors, and of critical airplane parts. Some of us are most familiar with the fallibility of memory, especially when we remember something clearly that turns out never to have happened. Being fallible is part of being human, and sometimes the biggest errors are made by those who are thought of as the most brilliant of all.
Examples of fallibility in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the WebBlame and guilt ripple through the hospital, pushing Alexandra to confront her own fallibility and the profound repercussions of medical errors.—Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 25 Apr. 2024 Seeking forgiveness is an act of vulnerability and humility, acknowledging one’s own fallibility and expressing a sincere desire for reconciliation.—Mark Travers, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024 Some inevitable combination of bureaucracy, human fallibility, and mathematical law keeps things bland: each time, the curators settle on sixty or a hundred or, this year, seventy-one artists whose creations have some relevance to the state of society, as well as to the state of art.—Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2024 Clara’s motives presumably stem from a troubled home life, and indeed the play, adapted for the stage by David Farr from the film by Thomas Vinterberg and Tobias Lindholm, is concerned with the fallibility of domestic order.—Naveen Kumar, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2024 When asking another person a question, a certain level of fallibility is accepted.—Jeff Wong, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024 So began one of the most inscrutable decisions in Olympics history as the gold went to Devitt, setting off years of protests and appeals by U.S. swimming officials and helping accelerate the introduction of electronic timing to remove the potential variables of human fallibility.—Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2024 This fallibility can potentially affect the results of experiments.—Luke Caldwell, Scientific American, 16 Jan. 2024 Penned by Alex Garland, Sunshine transcends its sensational premise by grappling with how the vastness of space exposes the fallibility of man, forcing him to reckon with the prospect of an all-knowing creator.—Randall Colburn, EW.com, 9 Nov. 2023
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