fallible

Example Sentences

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Clemency used to be a consistent failsafe for an often fallible system.

From Slate • Mar. 6, 2026

So long as human bodies are fallible to disease, we will need labs studying viruses, bacteria, fungi and parasites to see which ones could cause major problems.

From Salon • Feb. 28, 2026

Every person and system is fallible, but there’s no substitute for instinct — can a robot achieve that kind of intelligence?

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2026

From this place of old age and treatable illness, Julian ruminates on the fallible nature of memory and its role in shaping our identities.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

It is to stain their nobility, to make them vulnerable, fallible, breakable humans.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates