blunder

Example Sentences

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It is not the first time there has been an order blunder in Orkney in recent years.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

The best picture blunder has kept “Moonlight” and “La La Land” under the microscope for nine years now, and made the incident the blueprint for each ensuing Oscar season’s inevitable drama.

From Salon • Mar. 11, 2026

Less than a week into the war with its two most powerful adversaries, the strategy is beginning to look like a blunder.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026

A manufacturing blunder recently turned a smiling horse plushie into an icon of China's young employees.

From Barron's • Feb. 5, 2026

Nhamo saw Crocodile Guts packing a string bag: He put in a pipe, fishing lines, and a reed flute she remembered him playing as he waited for fish to blunder into his net.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer