Word: slip-up
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...formaldehyde, so that they cannot keep the power to infect (but retain the power to help the system build antibodies). Although this apparently did not happen in a single case during last year's tests, it was conceivable that somewhere along the line there had been a laboratory slip-up in the job of killing the virus...
...uncertain future. A tire or tie-rod failure on a Mercedes-Benz, an army plot like the two Pérez Jiménez staged, or a simple slip-up by a guard or a food-taster might remove the strongman from the scene. Lacking democracy's orderly system for succession, Venezuela might suffer a turbulent struggle for power...
...slip-up in the binding of the albums has delayed the appearance of the new band album entitled "Up the Street with the Harvard Band...
...seems incredible that she should be in love with the soul of Cyrano rather than the body of Christian. There is no conflict of Flesh vs. the Soul. One gets the impression that the producers have set the stage with the conventional hero and heroine, but through some slip-up of a script writer, the wrong man gets the girl...
...This may explain," he said, "why there may have been a failure to come immediately to grips with the topic advertised as the subject of the discussion. Not being endowed with clairvoyance I did not know that the subject had thus been defined. Evidently there was a slip-up somewhere in the antecedent clarification of the subject to be discussed...