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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a mental error" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a mistake or misjudgment that occurs in one's thinking or reasoning process.
Example: "After reviewing the calculations, I realized that my initial conclusion was based on a mental error."
Alternatives: "cognitive mistake" or "thinking error."
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You can control whether or not you make a mental error and to be tough mentally.
That's a mental error".
A mental error by the Kansas State senior Pervis Pasco set up the play.
"I think it was more of a mental error than it was technical," O'Hair said.
3) Jeremy Kerley's muffed punt at the Jets' 38 Normally, I wouldn't single out what appeared to be a physical mistake as a mental error.
In the third set, in which he held five set points in the tiebreak, at 6-5 he made a mental error by trying to take a forehand down the line, rather than playing it back to the Federer backhand.
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When a defensive player has the ball and can end the play by preventing further advance, but fails to do so because of a mental mistake (not an error) and a runner subsequently scores, the official scorer must decide whether to credit the batter with a run batted in (RBI).
There is one rare exception to this rule against charging an error for a "mental mistake".
"It was just a stupid mistake, just a dumb mental error," he said later.
It was just a dumb mental error.
And then 11, you know, another three-putt there, a stupid mental error hitting it so far past.
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