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will err

  • future tense of err.

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Meta says Instagram's new alerts - stemming from its analysis of user search patterns - may occasionally alert parents when there is no cause for concern and will "err on the side of caution".

From BBC Feb. 26, 2026

With less than three weeks before the Sept. 8 opener at Detroit, McVay will err on the side of caution when it comes to his 36-year-old quarterback.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 19, 2024

“The E.C.B. will err on the side of caution,” said Oliver Rakau, chief German economist at Oxford Economics, because they are nervous about being wrong again on inflation, after previously underestimating its strength.

From New York Times Jan. 25, 2024

Right now, investors seem to be betting that the Fed will err on the side of calming the financial system rather than aggressively tackling inflation.

From Washington Post Mar. 14, 2023

What a word for a hero!—but heroes will err, And I thought, dear, I'd tell you things just as they were.

From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Rossetti, William Michael