fallible
Example Sentences
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Clemency used to be a consistent failsafe for an often fallible system.
From Slate • Mar. 6, 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
Fogelman: And ultimately, we try and make everybody fallible, but also everybody kind of have a point of view and a place where they’re coming from.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 2025
The show is the story of an eccentric, big-hearted but fallible character, although Cullen had reservations about putting it on stage.
From BBC • May 30, 2025
They wanted to allow time for me to fall on my face and show that the former prisoner hailed as a savior was a highly fallible man who had lost touch with the present situation.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
Vocabulary lists containing fallible
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