How to Use fallibility in a Sentence

fallibility

noun

• At the same time, our fallibility is steeped in the stain of sin and imperfect appetites.
  — Tod Worner, National Review, 25 Oct. 2020
• That kind of freedom and fallibility is, to them, a form of beauty.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Aug. 2022
• But for all of the mind's fallibility, there are some things that can make its flashbulbs go off like a pack of paparazzi on the tail of a TikTok star.
  — Annie White, Car and Driver, 14 Dec. 2020
• The piece is a strange paean to the fact of journalistic fallibility.
  — The New Yorker, 17 June 2021
• Both China and the rest of the world would be somewhat safer if party chiefs were to acknowledge their fallibility.
  — The Economist, 3 Oct. 2019
• But the fallibility of zero-Covid became clear as the Omicron variant broke through the cordon in March 2022.
  — George Calhoun, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
• The fallibility of draft analysis drives much of the event’s appeal.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2022
• The path toward forgiveness runs right through the heart of his fallibility.
  — Amy Dickinson, Anchorage Daily News, 13 June 2018
• What’s amazing is how stubborn the brain is in its fallibility.
  — Matthew Hutson, WSJ, 7 Aug. 2022
• The film is a meditation on both the fallibility and the power of memory.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023
• And yet the Swedish Academy may have abused the privilege of fallibility.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2022
• Wednesday’s pullback was a reminder to investors of the fallibility of the tech trade, which has dominated the latest leg of the nine-year bull market.
  — Akane Otani, WSJ, 5 Sep. 2018
• Thanks to clever hackers and human fallibility, passwords are just too easy to steal or defeat.
  — David Hamilton, Anchorage Daily News, 4 May 2023
• To Jacob, the honesty and fallibility in the two rappers’ bars are what has gotten them to this stratospheric level of success.
  — Grant Rindner, Rolling Stone, 14 June 2021
• One thing that was made clear by the many, many people who praised him on Friday: Moore understood human fallibility and fragility more than most.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2021
• Worse still, the fallibility of tech makes it easy fodder for conspiracy theories, and a lack of faith in the democratic process.
  — Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 4 Feb. 2020
• Indeed, Coates begins the collection with that piece, thus making it a kind of statement of his fallibility.
  — Jamelle Bouie, Slate Magazine, 2 Oct. 2017
• There are at least two parts to that answer: human fallibility and systemic failures that reach all the way up to the federal government.
  — David Z. Morris, Fortune, 4 Feb. 2018
• Wednesday was grating, the first sign of fallibility for a floppy-haired fourth pitcher who in his brief Astros career had been anything but.
  — Chandler Rome, Houston Chronicle, 19 Apr. 2018
• More proof of the method’s fallibility came to light in 2006 from the research of cognitive neuroscientist Dror.
  — Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 21 Sep. 2022
• Trump did win, of course, and his victory highlights the inherent fallibility of polls.
  — Sue Halpern, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2020
• The fallibility of sunscreen is something that a country like Australia—uniquely vulnerable to the harms of the big fireball in the sky—has long understood.
  — Grace Browne, WIRED, 12 July 2023
• The logical premise here is not the precedent of human savvy but an analogy to human fallibility.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2023
• There is always surprise, human fallibility, and even, on rare occasion, the presence of the divine.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2022
• The legal issues are those of recklessness and negligence with a firearm; the human issues are about fallibility and remorse.
  — Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2021
• Still, the decline in Facebook users says a lot about the power of choice and hints at the fallibility of a social media platform that has been ubiquitous in internet culture for nearly two decades.
  — NBC News, 4 Feb. 2022
• That decision might seem a no-brainer, but Argentina’s cautious use of Messi in 2006 shows the fallibility of coaches.
  — Frank Dell'apa, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Dec. 2022
• Every Thanksgiving feast has room for improvement—owning up to this fallibility is the first step in overcoming it.
  — Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 18 Nov. 2023
• Blame and guilt ripple through the hospital, pushing Alexandra to confront her own fallibility and the profound repercussions of medical errors.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 25 Apr. 2024
• This fallibility can potentially affect the results of experiments.
  — Luke Caldwell, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024