human error

noun

: a person's mistake rather than on the failure of a machine

The accident was blamed on human error.

Examples of human error in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Given today’s risks, frontier labs need to run like nuclear power plants or busy airports, with layers of redundancy and careful, time-consuming planning, so that the occasional and inevitable human error does not open a door to disaster. — Terrence O'Brien, The Verge, 3 Oct. 2026

Hyperion failed in 2021 after human error and equipment failure flooded the plant. — Sandra McDonald, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026

Designing for human error works; exhorting humans not to err does not. — Alan Rencher, Forbes.com, 2 Oct. 2026

What the movie thrives on is the farcical and, all too often, horrendous reach of human error; surreal episodes are not cooked up but happened upon or stumbled over. — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026

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