The investigation revealed that the root cause of the crash was an errant wire bridging electrical contacts.
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Errant
/ˈɛɹ(ə)nt/
Synonyms for "errant" (128 found)
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Strong matches (38)
Related words (64)
liable to errormazymeanderingmigrationalmigratorymisbehavingmischievousnaughtynomadnomadicnot rightnot trueoffoff the trackopen to erroroutout-of-the-waypeccantperverseperverted
Noun(1 words)
Adjective(1 words)
Verb(1 words)
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5 entriesCollocations
6 entrieserrant behaviorerrant dataerrant particleserrant patherrant readingserrant satellite
Inflections
2 entriesmore errantmost errant
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2 entriesSample sentences
7 total sentences available.
Tom scolded John like an errant pupil.
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Officials say errant fireworks are to blame for sparking the fire that destroyed a hotel next to the company's new headquarters.
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In that there are just seven Planets or errant Stars in the lower Orbs of heaven: but it is now demonstrable unto sense, that there are many more
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