Designers can choose to accept that soft errors will occur, and design systems with appropriate error detection and correction to recover gracefully.

Windows 3.1 "did not recover gracefully when a Windows-based application crashed or hung."

Said of a system that has demonstrated an ability to recover gracefully from the whole range of exceptional inputs and situations in a given environment.

But as the vase illustrates, it is not whether one has flaws that matters but how gracefully one recovers from them.

The program could then gracefully recover from the problem.

She tried to recover gracefully.

The software is supposed to be smart enough to recover gracefully without you guys noticing.

"Most people will realize that they've asked something that doesn't belong in an interview; it allows them to recover gracefully."

Ms. McDonald, quick on her feet, brought him a glass of water and, after a few seconds, he recovered gracefully.

He showed off his defensive skill, or at least the wherewithal to recover gracefully, in the fifth inning tonight.