How to Use fallible in a Sentence

fallible

adjective

• Its job is a hard one, and its members are fallible, while getting the right answer is harder when bad precedents are entrenched or when the lawyers in the case haven’t made the best arguments.
  — The Editors, National Review, 18 July 2024
• But, like the Greek gods, AI can be fickle and fallible.
  — John Asquith, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2021
• Indeed, the yield curve and the Bloomberg models are fallible.
  — Bill Stone, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2023
• The driver's supposed to keep their eyes on the road and hands on the wheel, to monitor the fallible system.
  — Jack Stewart, WIRED, 12 Apr. 2018
• In hindsight, the Raiders’ three-game winning streak came against fallible teams.
  — Matt Kawahara, SFChronicle.com, 10 Dec. 2019
• But, over the last few years, June has transformed past those fallible human roots.
  — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 25 July 2019
• Even the head of the retail class proved to be fallible this holiday season.
  — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 15 Jan. 2020
• By the book’s end, the great painter feels fragile and accessible, both a legend and a fallible man.
  — The Economist, 4 June 2019
• Such proxies can be fallible, of course, even when founders aren’t anonymous.
  — Jessica Klein, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2023
• For all his authority, god, in Kinds of Kindness, is more fallible and lost than all of us.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 17 May 2024
• Yet all the while, the faithfulness of God nudges the actions of these fallible people along the path toward law, justice and mercy.
  — Francis Spufford, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024
• The fact that most of the people who hold authority in our lives due to their expertise are fallible can be hard to come to grips with.
  — Rosemary Donahue, Allure, 5 July 2017
• Chefs have hair, hairnets are fallible, and a strand can inevitably make its way onto a plate—we’re all human.
  — Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 6 Feb. 2024
• But this Michigan team is less fallible than the groups Jim Harbaugh has trotted onto the field in recent years.
  — Michael Cohen, Detroit Free Press, 10 Oct. 2021
• But the larger point is this: Human beings are fallible, right?
  — Jon Fobes, cleveland.com, 20 Dec. 2017
• Popeye is fallible but has long lived by his own moral code — a consistent trait that dates back to Segar’s creation.
  — Michael Cavna, Washington Post, 3 June 2022
• The crypto world and the Afrikaner right share the rhetoric that the end is nigh: The financial system is fallible, the social contract unstable.
  — Gregory Barber, WIRED, 6 June 2019
• Through the avatar of Pedro Pascal, the regenerative Joel and the fallible Joel had to become one.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 19 Feb. 2023
• The protests only serve to show that the party is, in fact, fallible and responsive to public anger, that the people have more power than anyone thought.
  — Time, 21 Dec. 2022
• And the art form of stop-motion animation is so fallible and human.
  — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2022
• There are no guarantees other than that most fallible one, the human heart.
  — Herbert Gold, Harpers Magazine, 5 Jan. 2021
• The truth is that leaders are quite mortal, fallible and imperfect.
  — Dana Brownlee, Forbes, 7 Nov. 2021
• The error proves, once again, that journalists are fallible.
  — Callum Borchers, Washington Post, 30 May 2017
• This show is about the people first and our all-too-fallible technology second.
  — Ars Staff, Ars Technica, 26 Dec. 2020
• This show is about the people, first, and our all-too-fallible technology, second.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 19 Sep. 2020
• Humans are time again said to be and repeatedly show themselves to be fallible.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 2 May 2022
• According to a story in The Guardian, the idea of the game is to show the public how fallible these systems are and raise awareness of why deploying them may, in many cases, not be such a good idea.
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 6 Apr. 2021
• While most people are good and decent, people are also weak, fallible, greedy and mistake prone.
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 18 Jan. 2024
• But in last week’s 77-64 second round win over Valley Vista, the Thunder finally looked fallible.
  — The Arizona Republic, 14 Feb. 2023
• Still, in just a few short weeks, Jackson has gone from being seen as a woman, highly accomplished, but fallible like the rest of us, to a symbol, put on a pedestal to be praised and attacked.
  — Erika D. Smithcolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2022

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024