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as in unerring
not being or likely to be wrong
a teacher with an infallible memory for names
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as in reliable
not likely to fail
an infallible cure for hiccups
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Recent Examples of infallible
Daniels has been infallible in the postseason, beating every scheme and exposing every defensive trick.
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J.j. Bailey, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025
Checkers are not infallible, and their successes are mostly due to hard work and creativity.
—Fergus McIntosh, The New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2025
The private school, Feather River Adventist School, is affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church, part of the Protestant Christian denomination whose followers believe the Bible is the infallible word of God and in the second coming of Christ.
—Karina Tsui, Holly Yan and Nicole Chavez, CNN, 17 Dec. 2024
Over jackets, over dresses, over other sweaters or even over your favorite coat, the simplest and most everyday action becomes an infallible trick to elevate an outfit.
—Teresa Romero Martínez, Glamour, 8 Dec. 2024
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J.j. Bailey, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025
Checkers are not infallible, and their successes are mostly due to hard work and creativity.
—Fergus McIntosh, The New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2025
The private school, Feather River Adventist School, is affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church, part of the Protestant Christian denomination whose followers believe the Bible is the infallible word of God and in the second coming of Christ.
—Karina Tsui, Holly Yan and Nicole Chavez, CNN, 17 Dec. 2024
Over jackets, over dresses, over other sweaters or even over your favorite coat, the simplest and most everyday action becomes an infallible trick to elevate an outfit.
—Teresa Romero Martínez, Glamour, 8 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for infallible
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Of course, social media, with its unerring ability to optimize our feeds for outrage, has only amplified that tendency.—
Bryan Walsh,
Vox,
7 Dec. 2018
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The film’s blistering opening salvo, a frenetic shootout designed to introduce us to Fok’s unerring dedication to old-school law enforcement, sees the camera adopt Fok’s POV for much of the action.—
James Marsh,
Deadline,
10 Jan. 2025
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Other agencies have also fired probationary employees, though no reliable total figure exists.—
Jonathan Shorman,
Kansas City Star,
12 Mar. 2025
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The tech sector is turning to nuclear power after concluding that renewables alone won’t provide enough reliable power for their energy needs.—
Pippa Stevens,Spencer Kimball,
CNBC,
12 Mar. 2025
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In fact, enough people fret over their sleep data trying to get a perfect night’s sleep that sleep specialists have coined a term for the behavior: orthosomnia.—
Sandee LaMotte,
CNN,
10 Mar. 2025
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The official trailer for You season five shows that even having the seemingly perfect life isn’t enough for Joe Goldberg.—
Carly Thomas,
The Hollywood Reporter,
10 Mar. 2025
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Whether this is the result of self-determination or New York’s unfailing hand of fate is one of the city’s great mysteries.—
airmail.news,
airmail.news,
30 Nov. 2024
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Indeed, there is convincing evidence of momentum in stock and other asset returns, but this is not an unfailing natural law.—
Bill Stone,
Forbes,
22 Nov. 2024
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This romantic number takes design direction from a field of blooming cornflowers and is a pitch-perfect match for ballet flats, a treasured pair of kitten heels, or even sturdy and dependable white sneakers — looking flawless in each and every context.—
Stacia Datskovska,
WWD,
15 Mar. 2025
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And while everything may have looked flawless on screen, Steed says the team wasn’t aiming for perfection.—
Erin Hill,
People.com,
8 Mar. 2025
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For example, Rankin said the moon right next to the Big Dipper asterism is a sure sign of fakery.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
13 Mar. 2025
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Fossilised footprints found at Queensland school | ABC NEWS Watch on Paleontologists aren’t sure which species of dinosaur made the tracks.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
13 Mar. 2025
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“Infallible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infallible. Accessed 19 Mar. 2025.
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