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RECALL BEFORE REVEAL

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Incapable of error or failure.

adjective

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infallible

No editor should assume that memory is infallible.
Dictionary practice example.
The spellchecker was not infallible: it accepted a correctly spelled but misplaced word that changed a caption's meaning.
From Accuracy in a Technical Display.
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