printer's error
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Even if it’s not a printer’s error or a truncation, fat might not mean what we think it means.
From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2015
Of course, no one would try to spend a $7.6 million coin, or mail a letter with one of those postage stamps made famous by a printer’s error.
From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2014
When the song was published in 1907, a printer's error had given him a new name: I. Berlin.
From Time Magazine Archive
Page 71, printer's error, impluse for impulse, 'the period of that impluse'.
From Hertzian Wave Wireless Telegraphy by Fleming, John Ambrose
Page 22, printer's error, consist for consists, 'due to Braun, consist of attaching'.
From Hertzian Wave Wireless Telegraphy by Fleming, John Ambrose
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