fatal flaw

collocation in English

meaningsoffatalandflaw

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fatal
adjective
uk
/ˈfeɪ.təl/us
/ˈfeɪ.t̬əl/
A fatal illness, accident, etc. ...
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flaw
noun[C]
uk
/flɔː/us
/flɑː/
a fault, mistake, or weakness, especially one that happens while something is being planned or made, or that causes something not to ...
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(Definition offatalandflawfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffatal flaw

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This is by no means afatalflaw, i but it is a missed opportunity.
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It seems to speak of afatalflawin the system of punishment that unravelled the whole.
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This idea initially seems promising, but it has afatalflawcentring around the problem of the domain of conjunction.
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Thefatalflawthat seems ubiquitous in this literature is lack of attention to conditions of memory testing.
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The target article is silent about why cognitive processing is afatalflaw, however.
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Getting to the year 3000: can global bioethics overcome evolution'sfatalflaw?
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For this is the key weakness, indeed thefatalflawof this long treatise.
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Itsfatalflawis that it pertained exclusively to the private, apolitical world.
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Thefatalflawin their analysis lies elsewhere.
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I propose to locate thefatalflawin this type of licensing relation.
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This is not afatalflaw, since lexical rules are known for being semiproductive, with many theoretically possible outputs which nevertheless are not in the lexicon.
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That is afatalflawin a leader and a sure prelude to riding for a fall.
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His approach to the matter is entirely correct, but it has onefatalflaw.
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Either there was afatalflawin the so-called "gentlemen's agreements," or they were broken.
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That is thefatalflawin the argument about the penalties in the rate support grant.
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But then comes thefatalflaw—that gap, again, between pious hope and reality.
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And this brings me to the nextfatalflaw.
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The fact that this formula does not include everything does not seem to me to be afatalflaw.
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This is afatalflawin our defences.
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