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error

[er-er] / ˈɛr ər /


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In other words, she doesn’t have much room for error.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 2, 2026

Choosing to directly take on the major airlines, rather than carving out niche routes, was a critical error that doomed the company.

From MarketWatch • May 2, 2026

The ruling also rests on a methodological error that would earn a failing grade in a graduate statistics course.

From Slate • May 1, 2026

"For a government to seek to use the pain of the Jewish community to restrict our right to peaceful protest would be a dangerous error," he said.

From BBC • Apr. 30, 2026

So her reigns of error smacked of good intentions and were never as juicy as Fifi's.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez




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