error
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When companies announce buybacks or dividends, investors often make the mental error of double counting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
A spokesperson for the local organising committee said the Pakistan and South Korea teams had departed from the same accommodation and there was "an error in matching teams to vehicles".
From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026
A July poll from co/efficient showed Lawler leading Conley 50% to 45%, with a nearly 3% margin of error.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
Russell and Verstappen were other drivers to make an error, both taking to the run-off area when they missed their braking points, the Mercedes driver at Turn Three and Verstappen at Turn One.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
After more weeks of trial and error and testing and retesting, they succeeded in locating a bullet lost in a different man's body for years.
From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow
Two of the supervisors realized Mason’s filing contained major errors, such as contradicting the trial record by asserting one witness never visually identified Johnson as the shooter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
“We intend to seek review in the California Supreme Court because we continue to believe significant legal errors affected the proceedings and warrant further review.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
"Without strong verification and hard boundaries, probabilistic errors can quietly become operational failures."
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
Slowing down, as you point out, comes with risks and, yes, sometimes, costly errors or judgment.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
Mostly these errors would have been such that the new macromolecule could not reproduce itself and eventually would have been destroyed.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
Vocabulary lists containing error
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Common Core Grade 5, List 3
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