Sentence examples similar to excusable error from inspiring English sources
In a state where party identification is collapsing, that may seem an excusable fault.
Considering the adverse conditions under which the French surveyors worked and the prevailing belief in the disparity of levels of the two seas, the error was excusable, and Le Père's conclusion was uncritically accepted by a succession of subsequent authors of canal projects.
But David Remnick, the editor in chief of The New Yorker, said that any misstatements or errors were not excusable, even if the essay was intended as a lighthearted sendup of the dot-com world.
"Of course, medical errors are never excusable," the report said, "but the base line death risk has to be known and factored out before drawing conclusions about the real effect of adverse reactions on death rates, preventable or otherwise".
The mistake is an excusable one.
Honest errors, on the other hand, "are more excusable because that's just sometimes what happens.
This tends to collapse the distinction since what is justified needs no excuse and the unjustifiable is sometimes excusable.
This is (excusable) poppycock.
