pitfall
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One major pitfall is that it may introduce visual bias into the hiring process, she noted.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
Officials struggled to answer questions about post-fire beach safety in part because of a lack of historical data on pollution levels, a pitfall researchers would like to forestall before another disaster arrives.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2026
Another potential pitfall is a dispute over the construction of a flight of steps and a square as the main entrance to the facade of Glory, which would entail destroying blocks of adjacent homes.
From Barron's ● Feb. 20, 2026
Another pitfall of AI is that it often aims to replace human effort, effectively becoming a crutch.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026
But he didn’t want to fall into a pitfall many photographers fell into—shooting a subject’s entire body, head to toe.
From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai
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Investors who are inclined to catastrophize already have plenty of potential pitfalls to fixate on these days.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 10, 2026
Lenat’s team was wary of the pitfalls of vesting their machine with human attributes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026
Streaming links, along with advice on how to avoid their pitfalls, are freely available in online discussion groups.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
Plus, avoiding the pitfalls of family funding for home buyers, a glow-up for Halloween candy and “The Traitors” draws a new generation into an old genre.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026
Ian Hacking, Larry Laudan and Andrew Pickering represent significant examples of people trying to avoid the pitfalls of both realism and relativism; I share that enterprise.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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