verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
law
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The General Commissioners had erred in law in concluding that the ancillary lighting was plant.
side
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We should err on the side of restraint, rather than of excess.
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The church has already erred on this side in the counsel it has given battered women.
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It is best therefore to err on the quiet side and to use percussion sparingly rather than to excess.
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So they dropped a dime in order to err on the safe side .
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Voltaire's work is, arguably, offensive but one should err on the side of allowing it to be available.
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But travel agents are urging their clients to err on the side of caution.
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The therapist should always err on the side of caution; the hypotheses set up are merely shrewd guesses.
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Typically, Burgess says, forecasters err on the side of caution by issuing a severe storm warning.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Cannon errs in labeling his critics as mindless pessimists.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And yes, they did err .
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But each of the networks erred in similar ways.
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But travel agents are urging their clients to err on the side of caution.
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For this reason the guidelines here tend to err on the cautious side.
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It is best therefore to err on the quiet side and to use percussion sparingly rather than to excess.
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It is understandable for health authorities to err on the side of caution, as these guidelines will not apply to everyone.
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Music as a background for drama is a much trickier area, but you should err on the side of understatement.
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The Edmonton editors now agree that they erred.