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adjective

infallible

CEFR C2

incapable of failure or error

In a sentence

Six example sentences with infallible, each labelled with its topic.

  • No screening test is infallible, so the clinic repeats a positive result before anyone is told they have the disease.

    Medicine

  • Speedrunners treat the frame timing as infallible until a rare desync throws the run off at the final boss.

    Gaming

  • Court chroniclers described the emperor as infallible, so no minister dared point out that the harvest forecast had collapsed.

    History

  • No spam filter is infallible, so the system lets users rescue a message it wrongly threw away.

    Technology

  • The seminar asked whether any belief can be infallible, and even the claim that two and two make four drew a challenge.

    Philosophy

  • The trader believed his model infallible until a single quiet Tuesday erased a year's gains.

    Finance

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