Definition of "fallible" []

• Capable of making an error: Humans are only fallible. (adjective)
• Tending or likely to be erroneous: fallible hypotheses. (adjective)

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• "I find, in other words, the best human beings fallible, and _very fallible_."
• "And the bottom line is, I'm not the first one who said that the emperor has no clothes and that "The New York Times" is fallible, which is perfectly reasonable -- fallible just like every other corporation or government or whatever it is."
• "But regulators and supervisors are fallible, which is why we need to attack the problems from all sides."