error
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The approaching winter leaves the market with little margin for error.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
It is also alleged he made "a fundamental error" in giving equal weight to a lawful parade and an unlawful protest.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
This measurement describes the amount of optical error in the system, or how far the incoming light deviates from an ideal, perfectly focused wavefront.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026
Dane Murray upended Jhon Duran to concede a penalty inside four minutes, an error which characterised the first 45 minutes.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
Like anyone new to tradecraft, he learned by trial and error.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
Quantinuum said it has developed an approach to detect and correct these errors that failed just five times in one million operations, indicating 99.9995% fidelity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
Both factors could have introduced errors into the exposure estimates.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026
Skinner, though, wants to see Australia cut out errors before they face England in Perth a week on Saturday.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
During a hearing, Judge Joseph A. Montano granted Busfield’s motion to dismiss his indictment, citing prosecutorial misconduct and errors that undermined the grand jury process.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
Because Warren Harding errors, it turns out, play an enormous, largely unacknowledged role in the car-selling business.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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Common Core Grade 5, List 3
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