errors

noun

plural of error
1
as in mistakes
an unintentional departure from truth or accuracy a report on the earthquake contained several unfortunate errors

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2
as in crimes
a breaking of a moral or legal code we have all committed errors in our lives and strayed from the path of righteousness

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3
as in delusions
a false idea or belief the story only spread the error by repeating the misinterpreted statistics

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Recent Examples of errors Verizon’s 2026 healthcare breach snapshot identifies vulnerability exploitation, phishing and credential abuse among initial access routes, alongside persistent staff errors and misconfigurations. — Aliasgar Dohadwala, Forbes.com, 26 Oct. 2026 Potential industrial applications This was then used to tell the robot’s limbs what moves to make, all the while monitoring the cube’s state to check and correct for errors. — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 25 Oct. 2026 Tampa Bay, which won the AL pennant by forcing opponents into mistakes, committed one error, made two other misplays that could have been charged as errors and had a runner thrown out at the plate. — Ronald Blum, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2026 Head coach Dave Canales said the team struggled in all three phases, and that errors put them in too deep a deficit. — Charlotte Observer, 25 Oct. 2026 When people have little relief from stress in a chaotic environment, their brains have difficulty coping with the ongoing prediction errors, Friston, McEwen and neuroscientist Achim Peters argued in a 2017 article. — Maia Szalavitz, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026 Passengers will also be able to fix any name errors on their booking for free. — Will Barker, TheWeek, 19 Oct. 2026 The law is supposed to prevent mistakes that could erroneously purge eligible voters right before an election without giving voters time to correct errors. — Miles Parks, NPR, 19 Oct. 2026 Kartal had more winners (32-23) but made more unforced errors (36-27), in a match featuring no aces on Dongfeng Voyah center court. — ABC News, 18 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for errors
  1. mistakes
  2. crimes
  3. delusions
  4. blunders
  5. violations
  6. myths
  7. sins
  8. illusions
Noun
  • Containing the ground game could put Seattle in predictable passing situations, giving the Chiefs a chance to pressure Darnold and force mistakes.
    — Neil Nakahodo, Kansas City Star, 22 Oct. 2026
  • But Orlando believes those types of mistakes are correctable.
    — Jason Beede, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of mistakes
Noun
  • Comparing the administration's fight to protect women and women's spaces from males to rape, is utterly disgusting and actually devalues those atrocities and crimes against actual women.
    — Jon Root OutKick, FOXNews.com, 23 Oct. 2026
  • McKinney touts the city attorney’s prosecutor role as a means to stem quality-of-life crimes and curb homelessness.
    — Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of crimes
Noun
  • Their passions and delusions strengthen through their symbiosis.
    — Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 19 Oct. 2026
  • In a number of wrongful death lawsuits, ChatGPT is blamed for driving users to experience harmful delusions and, in some cases, to commit suicide.
    — Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of delusions
Noun
  • Burks said that leadership blunders are at the problem’s crux.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Soon-to-be Cy Young Award winner Jacob Misiorowski held the Rays to just one run in his five innings, but certainly not without the help of some Rays baserunning blunders.
    — Ryan Morik OutKick, FOXNews.com, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of blunders
Noun
  • And unlike state authorities who can be sued for civil rights violations in state courts, federal law enforcement authorities are generally shielded from such lawsuits based on legal precedents.
    — Philip Wang, Time, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Jackson was previously convicted of two counts of assault of a police officer and one count of carrying a pistol without a license and had three parole violations, the agency said.
    — Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of violations
Noun
  • Also intertwined are ancient myths of warring city-states, the raw, moody poetry of John Keats, and the modern battle between a faithless husband and his wife, the poem’s raging speaker.
    — Merve Emre, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2026
  • But Brigid also appears throughout the early Irish myths as a member of the aes sidhe.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of myths
Noun
  • Per the official logline, in the final season, as the survivors race to bury their sins before rescue arrives and an old flame roars back into town with plans of her own.
    — Denise Petski, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Many crimes, including property crimes like burglary or moral sins such as adultery, were punishable by death in the American colonies.
    — Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of sins
Noun
  • Pokémon cards, a pricey Ferrari shirt and a touristy museum of illusions.
    — Jeanne Bonner, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2026
  • When the team built a setup to directly quantify real-time heat flux alongside electrical output, the theoretical illusions collapsed.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of illusions

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“Errors.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/errors. Accessed 27 Oct. 2026.

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