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error message

British

noun

a message displayed on a visual display unit, printout, etc, indicating that an incorrect instruction has been given to the computer

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But for 2½ hours she got the error message and could not access the pool of tickets until 12:30 p.m., by which time, she said, “the pickings were slim.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

Parts of the its website and those of its brands were showing an error message on Wednesday afternoon, with the company warning the cyber-attack could delay product deliveries.

From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026

Posting the link on Facebook now triggers an error message saying: “Posts that look like spam according to our Community Guidelines are blocked on Facebook and can’t be edited.”

From Slate • Jan. 28, 2026

The Morrisons website also appears to be down, with a "502 bad gateway" error message on some pages.

From BBC • Dec. 23, 2024

Or we can punch the numbers into our calculators and see the error message ourselves.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

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