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You'll find this word showing up in discussions of eyewitness testimony at crime scenes, of lie detectors, and of critical airplane parts. Some of us are most familiar with the fallibility of memory, especially when we remember something clearly that turns out never to have happened. Being fallible is part of being human, and sometimes the biggest errors are made by those who are thought of as the most brilliant of all.
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What has made Superman endure culturally since 1938 is his humanity — his fallibility and compassion — a fact which Corenswet gets to elucidate in a moving, climactic speech.
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Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 8 July 2025
Any comedy library needs to include at least one of her delightfully frothy collections of meditations on fallibility and imperfection, and her first, I Was Told There’d Be Cake, is the best place to start.
—Brian Boone, Vulture, 18 June 2025
The courage to make peace with his fallibility and embrace vulnerability as his deepest source of strength.
—Margie Warrell, Forbes.com, 21 May 2025
Other kinds of brokenness can show us our fallibility, mortality, energy, adaptability, or capability.
—Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 6 May 2025
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Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 8 July 2025
Any comedy library needs to include at least one of her delightfully frothy collections of meditations on fallibility and imperfection, and her first, I Was Told There’d Be Cake, is the best place to start.
—Brian Boone, Vulture, 18 June 2025
The courage to make peace with his fallibility and embrace vulnerability as his deepest source of strength.
—Margie Warrell, Forbes.com, 21 May 2025
Other kinds of brokenness can show us our fallibility, mortality, energy, adaptability, or capability.
—Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 6 May 2025
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“Fallibility.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fallibility. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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