Example Sentences

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Wiseman has spent a career probing the complex inner workings and painfully human errors of America’s establishments, but in marriage itself, he may have found the most fraught, mysterious and unreformable institution of all.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2026

My new documentary film, however, details critical human errors that fueled the flames—errors Palisadians still don’t see anyone owning.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025

"Nothing will ever be the same any more," he added, speaking of "fatal human errors coupled with chronic shortcomings of the state".

From BBC • Feb. 28, 2025

The report found multiple factors including track defects, maintenance issues, outdated signaling equipment, and human errors as main causes of the derailments.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 3, 2023

What there is in this world, I think, is a tendency for human errors to level themselves like water throughout their sphere of influence.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver