mistake

Example Sentences

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Still others argue the underlying assumption here may be mistaken—that consciousness may not be reducible to computation at all.

From The Wall Street Journal

“The biggest challenge of working with sand is that there’s no room for mistakes,” she said while sitting at a worktable stocked with dozens of small sand-filled glass jars, all arranged by color.

From Los Angeles Times

Treasury chief Rachel Reeves said the U.K. government is planning for every contingency, and would not repeat the mistakes of 2022 and 2023.

From The Wall Street Journal

When a human makes a mistake, you can understand a little more but when there is the VAR, it's really difficult.

From BBC

In a statement to lawmakers, Reeves said the government is planning for every contingency, but would not repeat the mistakes of 2022 and 2023, when the support provided to households was “untargeted and unfunded.”

From The Wall Street Journal