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Example sentences for: error

How can you use “error” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

The Jakarta Post marked the departure of the last Indonesian troops from East Timor by describing Indonesia's 24-year war to keep control of the territory as "an historic error."
Surprising though it may seem, the results of a scientific poll of a few hundred randomly sampled people can be extrapolated to the larger population (to a 95 percent degree of confidence and within a margin of error).
TP regrets the error and has fixed it in the text.
It has been suggested that calculation of the mean of up to six measurements each taken over 30 s will reduce the error, but clearly this is time consuming [ 22].
Costly error or painful recriminations lie on either side of my position.