How to Use fallible in a Sentence

fallible

adjective
  • That being said, there are signs that such an approach is fallible.
    — Mark Carey, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2025
  • Such proxies can be fallible, of course, even when founders aren’t anonymous.
    — Jessica Klein, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2023
  • The body is a fallible thing, after all, and the mind…But mine had never been so.
    — Literary Hub, 15 June 2026
  • But, over the last few years, June has transformed past those fallible human roots.
    — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 25 July 2019
  • Indeed, the yield curve and the Bloomberg models are fallible.
    — Bill Stone, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2023
  • In hindsight, the Raiders’ three-game winning streak came against fallible teams.
    — Matt Kawahara, SFChronicle.com, 10 Dec. 2019
  • Even the head of the retail class proved to be fallible this holiday season.
    — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 15 Jan. 2020
  • An angel doesn’t have a body, certainly not a fallible one full of viscera and waste and gore.
    — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2025
  • There are no guarantees other than that most fallible one, the human heart.
    — Herbert Gold, Harpers Magazine, 5 Jan. 2021
  • Ultimately blame must fall on those fallible humans in the board room.
    — Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • The truth is that leaders are quite mortal, fallible and imperfect.
    — Dana Brownlee, Forbes, 7 Nov. 2021
  • 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
  • Humans are time again said to be and repeatedly show themselves to be fallible.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 2 May 2022
  • By the book’s end, the great painter feels fragile and accessible, both a legend and a fallible man.
    — The Economist, 4 June 2019
  • And the art form of stop-motion animation is so fallible and human.
    — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2022
  • This show is about the people first and our all-too-fallible technology second.
    — Ars Staff, Ars Technica, 26 Dec. 2020
  • While most people are good and decent, people are also weak, fallible, greedy and mistake prone.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 18 Jan. 2024
  • CEOs, like anyone else, are human and fallible.
    — Julian Hayes Ii, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • This show is about the people, first, and our all-too-fallible technology, second.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 19 Sep. 2020
  • 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
  • However, our faith in God is not based on following a fallible human man.
    — NBC News, 6 Feb. 2022
  • For all his authority, god, in Kinds of Kindness, is more fallible and lost than all of us.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 17 May 2024
  • The vector wasn't a server, computer, or even a fallible human.
    — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 19 July 2023
  • What’s important in any game, and more so in the playoffs, is not to give them an opportunity to be fallible.
    — Arpon Basu, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Truth, these experts tell him, lies not in our fallible senses but in the bewildering decrees of science.
    — Meghan O’Gieblyn, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2019
  • That makes the killers kind of human and fallible and clumsy, and these movies get a lot of mileage out of the slapstick shenanigans of their slasher chases.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2026
  • To an extent, pop personas are designed for obsolescence—even the most iconic are fallible.
    — Grace Robins-Somerville, Pitchfork, 27 Jan. 2026
  • And be aware that AI is imperfect because it is designed by fallible humans.
    — Tracy Brower, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024

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