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595 examples of Error in a sentence

"You know, it's the end of an error [sic].
I happen to believe it was a great error.
I found a problem, a specific problem that actually found an error with that.
And that's terrifying, because the theoretical models that always work out in the answer key in the back of a teacher's edition, that's great, but it's scary to talk about sources of error when the theoretical does not match up with the practical.
But it turned out it wasn't going to be as simple in the end, and it set us back three months because we had one error out of over a million base pairs in that sequence.
There's parts of the genome where it cannot tolerate even a single error, and then there's parts of the genome where we can put in large blocks of DNA, as we did with the watermarks, and it can tolerate all kinds of errors.
So it took about three months to find that error and repair it.
We knew they worked through old-fashioned trial and error.
A Type I error, or false positive, is believing a pattern is real when it's not.
Our second type of error is a false negative.
A Type II error is not believing a pattern is real when it is.
Well, if you think that the rustle in the grass is a dangerous predator and it turns out it's just the wind, you've made an error in cognition, made a Type I error, false positive.
Now the problem here is that patternicities will occur whenever the cost of making a Type I error is less than the cost of making a Type II error.
We have a pattern detection problem that is assessing the difference between a Type I and a Type II error is highly problematic, especially in split-second, life-and-death situations.
The error margin is narrow.
If this was the case, we'd have a really easy solution to the problem of human error.
We might just have to accept the fact that we're error prone and try to design things around it.
They happened at the conference table at the weekly lab meeting, when everybody got together and shared their latest data and findings, oftentimes when people shared the mistakes they were having, the error, the noise in the signal they were discovering.
Because this idea that health is internal and atomized and individual and pharmaceutical is largely an error.
Just when you thought you were watching a comment from famous liberals on DC politics (the first five minutes), the movie runs off the road and into B-film drama about 1) a computer voting error, 2) the regular evil corporate suits who wants to cover it up with the most unoriginal lines in history, and 3) a neurotic but extremely pretty female programmer who tries to tell the coming president about this.
This film commits the fatal error of making the viewer not care what happens to characters.
There must be an error.
The murder sequence has a glaring continuity error: the camera shows two hands choking the girl, then a shot of a hand reaching for a statuette, then a shot of the girl being choked with two hands again, and finally the statuette coming down for the fatal blow.
The other error they made with this picture was not knowing what kind of movie they were making.
The story, in which Technical Fairy, First Class makes Snafu into a superhuman in order to help him see the error of his ways, is predictable and unfunny.
The problem was it became a matter of pride for me to finish it after the opening thirty minutes, and that was a fatal error on my behalf.
I hope this is only a scheduling error, but come on Carlos and Comedy Central, those topics, and many others, have run the gamut of late night TV show hosts' opening monologues, Saturday Night Live, Mad TV and many, many others.
Also, it is a great error.
The English translation of the title on the DVD version of this film is "Graveyard of Horrors," but I think that must be an error.
How could this be an INTERNATIONAL error?
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