tragic error
collocation in Englishmeaningsoftragicanderror
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tragic
adjective
uk/ˈtrædʒ.ɪk/us/ˈtrædʒ.ɪk/
very sad, often involving death ...
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error
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈer.ər/us/ˈer.ɚ/
a ...
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(Definition oftragicanderrorfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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If improvements can be made to the procedures, they must be implemented to minimise any possibility of such atragicerrorrecurring.
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This is atragicerrorin my view.
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I fear that as our manpower crisis deepens, thistragicerrormay be repeated.
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However, let us be clear: this was atragicerror, and there was no deliberate intent on our part.
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The police and security services are properly accountable to society as a whole, even when a verytragicerrorhas been committed.
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Such a decision would be atragicerror.
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The opting out of schools will prove atragicerror.
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This is very far from being the truth, and it would be atragicerrorto base policy on that assumption.
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To believe that is atragicerror.
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This was, indeed, atragicerror.
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It was atragicerrorto say that we would not go beyond the first-stage proposals, the two-and-a-half million manpower level, except on political conditions which we do not define.
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The mammoth and mosttragicerroris that it was considered from the start that for this particular project a bottomless reservoir of wealth was available.
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This is atragicerror.
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It is atragicerror.
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That was atragicerror.
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But we all know that there have been some tragic errors of judgment on this.
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Spending large sums, which we can ill afford, on the renewal of an allegedly independent strategic nuclear deterrent is the latest of these tragic errors.
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Less bleak than the tragedies, these four plays are graver in tone than the comedies of the 1590s, but they end with reconciliation and the forgiveness of potentially tragic errors.
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