as in imperfect
capable of making mistakes or being wrong
She was a perfectionist who failed to realize that humans are inherently fallible.
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Recent Examples of fallible
No amount of blank ink, however, can cover the fact that the Robotaxis are getting into accidents at a high rate — a rate, Electrek calculates, that’s not only worse than its competitors, but the fallible human drivers it’s supposed to outmode.
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Frank Landymore, Futurism, 18 Feb. 2026
The difference between right and left—in my definition of it—is that the right acknowledges that when people fail, because human nature is fallible, very often that is your own responsibility.
—David Remnick, New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2026
Humans can be fallible, biased and inconsistent.
—Jan Wagner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Jan. 2026
To an extent, pop personas are designed for obsolescence—even the most iconic are fallible.
—Grace Robins-Somerville, Pitchfork, 27 Jan. 2026
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Frank Landymore, Futurism, 18 Feb. 2026
The difference between right and left—in my definition of it—is that the right acknowledges that when people fail, because human nature is fallible, very often that is your own responsibility.
—David Remnick, New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2026
Humans can be fallible, biased and inconsistent.
—Jan Wagner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Jan. 2026
To an extent, pop personas are designed for obsolescence—even the most iconic are fallible.
—Grace Robins-Somerville, Pitchfork, 27 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fallible
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The latest move shouldn’t come as that much of a surprise, Meta was already eyeing the existing market of billions of people with imperfect eyesight.—
Will McCurdy,
PC Magazine,
29 Mar. 2026
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An imperfect relationship One paradoxical aspect of the Danish-Greenlandic relationship is the constitutional arrangement that prevents Greenland from competing in international soccer is also what anchors it politically.—
Emile Nuh,
CNN Money,
26 Mar. 2026
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But the arc — first raising expectations for a big reveal, then declaring there was nothing to see, and ultimately a forced, flawed document dump — was a stubbornly problematic storyline that ran through her time as attorney general.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
3 Apr. 2026
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Now a national policy that risks worsening care and eroding patient dignity is being justified by a single, flawed data point.—
Diego Schaps,
STAT,
1 Apr. 2026
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And a cohort of American consumers, siding with the plaintiff, determined that the platforms are defective products, distributed to the public without proper safeguards or warnings about their potential harms.—
Maggie Harrison Dupré,
Futurism,
26 Mar. 2026
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Her lawyers argued that the apps should be seen as defective products that contributed to Kaley's mental health struggles.—
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
26 Mar. 2026
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“Fallible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fallible. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.
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