【每日一词】fallible - able or likely to make mistakes 会犯错误的;容易出错的
Definition:
1: liable to be erroneous
a fallible generalization
2: capable of making a mistake
we're all fallible
Example Sentences
1 The process of scientific discovery is a complicated story involving data collection, hypothesis testing, hypothesis falsification, hypothesis revision, further testing and brilliant but fallible humans doing all that work. —David Quammen, New York Times, 25 July 2023
2 Many precautions have proved fallible: The Uvalde shooter entered a door that failed to automatically lock as designed, and other attackers have entered buildings by shooting out windows. —The Week Staff, The Week, 29 Jan. 2023
3 The board did summarily dismiss around 28,500 challenges, all from Schneider, because they were made using a fallible database-matching technique comparing Georgia voter rolls with the National Change of Address system, which a federal court had disallowed as systematic. —Doug Bock Clark, ProPublica, 13 July 2023
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