in error
Example Sentences
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Speaking to PA News on Saturday, Badenoch said it had gone out "in error".
From BBC • May 2, 2026
Lammy also expressed his "profound sympathies to the victims of those prisoners who were released in error, especially to Hadush Kebatu's victim", adding that he had met the victim's family in December.
From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026
Shares have little to trade on other than isolated company announcements and investor sentiment, as quantum enthusiasts await milestones like wide-scale commercialization and a reduction in error rates.
From Barron's • Apr. 8, 2026
Ehrlich’s knack for being not only wrong but 180 degrees in error cost him neither popularity—he appeared on “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson” more than a dozen times—nor prestige in academia.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026
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
