How to Use human error in a Sentence

human error

noun

• These and many other episodes make clear that AI has not ended the role of human error in road accidents.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 30 July 2023
• Then human error abruptly forced me from my sound cocoon.
  — WIRED, 13 June 2023
• There’s human error too—sometimes students drop things through the floor, and that imperfection causes a way for the sound to reflect.
  — Charlotte Hu, Popular Science, 7 Sep. 2023
• Overall, about 60% of all rail accidents happen in rail yards, and of those, more than half are caused by human factors or human error, the AAR says.
  — Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2023
• City spokesperson Mike Lyster said that document was wrong because of a human error.
  — Michael Slaten, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024
• They are also sold as tools that will eliminate human bias or human error.
  — Lorena O'Neil, Rolling Stone, 12 Aug. 2023
• The review made clear that Jackson’s water crisis was not the result of one bad weather event or a single case of human error or even short-term neglect.
  — Joshua Lott, Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2023
• But for now, the problem is that identifying fake news is a manual process prone to human error and the duress of news-cycle urgency.
  — Martin J. O'Malley and Peter L. Levin, Foreign Affairs, 5 Jan. 2017
• However, the council also cautioned the method could be subject to human error if samples are tainted in the field or mislabeled in the lab.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 22 Mar. 2023
• Investigators blamed the collision on human error and said the two trains were running on the same line for 12 minutes, or a distance of about 11 miles, when the head-on crash occurred.
  — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 5 Mar. 2023
• The incidents often occur at or near airports and are the result of human error, the agency’s internal records show.
  — Emily Steel, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2023
• Collectors like Robey knew that any multistep printing process was prone to human error.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Nov. 2023
• The final cause of such incidents is human error, where a lack of training or diligence may mean that medical staffers miss a patient’s vital signs.
  — Victoria Bisset, Washington Post, 13 June 2023
• Many of the incident reports blame human error and inattention.
  — USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2024
• Near misses in aviation are almost always the result of human error.
  — Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 23 Aug. 2023
• The government has blamed human error, and a railway official was charged with manslaughter.
  — Costas Kantouris and Nicholas Paphitis, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Mar. 2023
• Christine Jeffs’ edge-of-your-seat medical thriller unpacks the perilous aftermath of a single human error.
  — Zoe Guy, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2024
• Yes, because human error gets in the way of proper brushing with a manual model, explains Dr. Kutlay.
  — Barbara Bellesi Zito, Peoplemag, 19 June 2023
• Officials still have not determined if the signal change was a technical or human error.
  — Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner, 4 June 2023
• Some moderation issues could be the result of human error.
  — WIRED, 17 Mar. 2023
• Some studies have found a greater increase in medical mistakes caused by human error, and an increase in fatal car crashes during the week following the spring time change.
  — Catherine Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Mar. 2023
• Election conspiracists blamed the issue on electronic poll books rather than the real culprit: human error.
  — David Gilbert, WIRED, 6 Mar. 2024
• Over the summer, a human error caused Voyager 2’s antenna to tilt two degrees away from Earth, leading researchers to lose contact with the craft for more than a week before its functions returned to normal.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Dec. 2023
• Because smart contracts are immutable, human error is quite punitive.
  — Solo Ceesay, Rolling Stone, 2 May 2023
• But overall, these were cases that appear largely, if not exclusively, to be issues of human error.
  — Scott MacFarlane, CBS News, 29 June 2023
• Also, a recent study found an almost 19% increase in adverse medical events related to human error in the week after switching to DST.
  — Leada Gore | [e-mail], al, 10 Mar. 2023
• It is estimated that, by next year over half of significant cyber incidents will be caused by human error or skill shortages1.
  — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Apr. 2024
• There is also the possibility of basic human error and human bias in using these samples.
  — Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 26 Oct. 2023
• Yet, despite the risks involved, some businesses rely on inaccurate data due to a lack of resources, time constraints or human error.
  — Tomasz Jamroz, Forbes, 3 May 2023
• The official didn’t provide details about what the human error was but noted that Israel’s aerial defense systems don’t always operate autonomously.
  — Eugenia Yosef, CNN, 19 July 2024

Last Updated: 23 Sep 2024