mistake

Example Sentences

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“Hard, sometimes, find your place, especially when you have a gift. Can make mistakes along the way, can hurt others or yourself even.”

From Literature

It was a mistake that would haunt him.

From Literature

Motin told the court he had made a "mistake" and pressed the wrong button.

From Barron's

Campbell Harvey, a finance professor at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, agreed that it’s a mistake to blame the Warsh announcement for gold’s big Friday drop.

From MarketWatch

Why, some staffers wondered, would the federal government outsource the writing of such critical standards to a nascent technology notorious for making mistakes?

From Salon