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pitfall

[pit-fawl] / ˈpɪtˌfɔl /


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Another pitfall is that if you miss the monthly deadline for a minimum payment at any point, you can lose the entire bonus.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026

Another potential pitfall is a dispute over the construction of a flight of steps and a square as the main entrance to the facade of Glory, which would entail destroying blocks of adjacent homes.

From Barron's ● Feb. 20, 2026

Another pitfall of AI is that it often aims to replace human effort, effectively becoming a crutch.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026

It is a potential pitfall for Rosenior to be wary of given that, as a recruit from Todd Boehly and Clearlake Capital's other club Strasbourg, he could easily be labelled a yes-man.

From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2026

But he didn’t want to fall into a pitfall many photographers fell into—shooting a subject’s entire body, head to toe.

From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai

Investors who are inclined to catastrophize already have plenty of potential pitfalls to fixate on these days.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 10, 2026

Pope Leo XIV has weighed in on the moral pitfalls of seeing AI products as sentient, as my colleague Nilesh Christopher reports.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026

Traders are revealing where they see the biggest pitfalls in debt issuance related to artificial intelligence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

Streaming links, along with advice on how to avoid their pitfalls, are freely available in online discussion groups.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

Gertie’s father didn’t approve of Hans because he was enlisted in the US Marines and there were too many pitfalls to military life.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly


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