blunder

To state the obvious, Manning’s blunder is not in the area code of French’s tweet.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

Naderi capitalised on a blunder from Motherwell goalkeeper Alex Paulsen to roll the ball into an empty net.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

But just as you can blunder into a war, you can blunder out of one.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

“Let me cry about this loss a little bit more,” Leonard said about his future with the Clippers after that blunder.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026

This was a blunder, as Conant should have realized.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

Judge Linda Kevins of New York State's Supreme Court warned in a January ruling that such blunders wasted the time and money of both the opposing party and the court.

From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026

A horrific crime turned into a national scandal as France realised the scale of official blunders that had left Barella at liberty.

From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026

It was one of the German chancellor’s worst strategic blunders.

From Salon ● May 21, 2026

For the game, for the third straight game, the Lakers made bunches of mistakes that became bunches of baskets, this time 17 blunders that became 30 Oklahoma City points.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2026

Henry Lynn has taken possession of an ottoman at the feet of Louisa: Adèle shares it with him: he is trying to talk French with her, and Louisa laughs at his blunders.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

That’s why Evgeny blundered into Dmitri’s shop, although he admits that he’s none too successful at this gig.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026

But Ding blundered on move 55 and Gukesh exploited the error to clinch the title.

From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2024

Addressing some 100 C.I.A. officials on March 19, Mr. Burns acknowledged how the agency catastrophically blundered in its assessment that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.

From New York Times ● May 9, 2023

Barely a week after setting a franchise record with 111 regular-season victories, the biggest winners in Dodgers history have blundered into a vastly different moniker.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2022

One by one they blundered into objects until all that could be heard were Baba Joseph’s exhortations and the groans of men nursing injuries.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

At the 1994 tournament in Linares, Spain, Mr. Kasparov—as the camera later showed—made a blundering move, let go of the piece, changed his mind and moved it back.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026

“It’s true that by blundering about we stumbled on gold, but the fact remains that we were looking for gold.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2025

Naive, blundering hobbyists and reckless pranksters can also veer into restricted airspace, setting off alarms and potentially shutting down airport traffic.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2025

Steve Carell voiced Gru, the world’s foremost supervillain, who relies on his army of blundering helpers — something like evil Oompa-Loompas — to run his lair.

From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2022

Then I was up in the dark and blundering around, feeling rough walls and the coal giving way beneath each step like treacherous sand.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison