be in error
Example Sentences
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Since most prefer to avoid lowering their self-regard, people are more likely to come up with elaborate rationalizations to maintain a current position than acknowledge that view may be in error.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2021
Show that the Gregorian calendar will be in error by 1 day in about 3300 years.
From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016
Typically, the court grants emergency appeals when a majority of the justices think the lower court ruling may be in error and may cause real harm in the interim.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2015
If so, then the apparent decrease in tornadoes shown on the official plot could be in error.
From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2013
The elegance and grandeur of the theory, however, persuaded him that the observations must be in error, a conclusion drawn when the observations are unobliging by many other theorists in the history of science.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
