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  • noun Plural form of error.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of error.

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Examples

  • The errors to be overcome include Cartesianism, Nominalism, and the ˜copy theory of truth™: these ˜errors™ are all related.

    Pragmatism Hookway, Christopher 2008

  • Non-Christian groups who use the prayer, for example the United Church of Religious Science as well as some twelve-step recovery programs, substitute the word errors for debts.

    The SOURCE of MIRACLES KATHLEEN MCGOWAN 2009

  • Continue with the name errors from the 1st movie - OR - create a slight continuity issue by correcting the devestator-brawl-bonecrusher name problems for a more acurate pt2?

    Rumor: Constructicons Coming in Transformers 2?! « FirstShowing.net 2008

  • And interesting to note as well that there is a judge in England who says there are nine things wrong with "An Inconvenient Truth" and that when that film is shown in schools, the teachers should illuminate those what he calls errors to their students.

    CNN Transcript Oct 12, 2007 2007

  • GALLAGHER: Mormons believe that the Bible has a number of what they call errors and that the Christian Church strayed from Jesus 'message after the apostles died.

    CNN Transcript May 9, 2007 2007

  • RICHARD ROLL, PRESIDENT, AMERICAN HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION: One of them is what we call errors of facts or mechanical errors.

    CNN Transcript Jul 30, 2005 2005

  • Moreover in the field of economics, we made mistakes, which we call errors of idealism.

    FIDEL CASTRO INTERVIEW WITH PBS MACNEIL 1985

  • Being humbler men, they are dealt with more lightly; and men all agree in this, that the cardinal would rather persuade men to escape, and make the way easy for them to abjure what he calls their errors, than drag them to the stake.

    For the Faith Evelyn Everett-Green 1894

  • And this impression is confirmed by the fact that the convulsion of this world is due to evil, mainly in the worst forms here considered, partly in the milder forms which we call the errors or defects of the better characters.

    Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth 1893

  • Tradition doubtless was his guide, which the learned themselves complain of as the source of what they term his errors and his fables.

    Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2) John Roby 1821

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