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You'll find this word showing up in discussions of eyewitness testimony at crime scenes, of lie detectors, and of critical airplane parts. Some of us are most familiar with the fallibility of memory, especially when we remember something clearly that turns out never to have happened. Being fallible is part of being human, and sometimes the biggest errors are made by those who are thought of as the most brilliant of all.
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But in his first appearances on Olympic ice, Malinin showed some fallibility and faltered in the short program of the team event, finishing behind Japan’s Yuma Kagiyama.
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Alice Park, Time, 14 Feb. 2026
Thiaw’s night to forget After delivering 26 borderline-imperious appearances for Newcastle, finally Thiaw showed genuine fallibility.
—Chris Waugh, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2026
Penned by Alex Garland, Sunshine transcends its sensational premise by grappling with how the vastness of space exposes the fallibility of man, forcing him to reckon with the prospect of an all-knowing creator.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Jan. 2026
Industry is about naked ambition meeting the limitations of human fallibility.
—Grace Byron, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2025
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Alice Park, Time, 14 Feb. 2026
Thiaw’s night to forget After delivering 26 borderline-imperious appearances for Newcastle, finally Thiaw showed genuine fallibility.
—Chris Waugh, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2026
Penned by Alex Garland, Sunshine transcends its sensational premise by grappling with how the vastness of space exposes the fallibility of man, forcing him to reckon with the prospect of an all-knowing creator.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Jan. 2026
Industry is about naked ambition meeting the limitations of human fallibility.
—Grace Byron, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2025
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“Fallibility.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fallibility. Accessed 18 Feb. 2026.
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