: an error (as of spelling) in typed or typeset material
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I spotted three typos on the menu.
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Seemingly limitless resources at the ready for the incoming team was not enough to avoid myriad typos, internal contradictions, and an inability to pick a format and stick with it.—Philip Elliott, TIME, 22 Jan. 2025 By middle age, each body cell probably has about a thousand genetic typos, estimates Michael Lodato, a molecular biologist at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School in Worcester.—Amber Dance, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Jan. 2025 The criminal complaint charges them with fentanyl distribution, but that appears to be a typo; a drug agent’s affidavit requests methamphetamine trafficking charges and makes no mention of a fentanyl bust anywhere in the document.—Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 24 Dec. 2024 In healthcare settings, even a typo in a prescription can have life threatening consequences so leaders must devote resources to understand what potential errors AI could make in the specific situation its being integrated.—Ellen Choi, Forbes, 14 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for typo
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