blunder
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Instead of owning the blunder, Schmitt doubled down.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026
The Ravens got an emotional boost with their win off the Cowboys’ blunder, though they shouldn’t have lost to the Saints in Week 2.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
What a failure of judgment, of care; what a blunder.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
The blunder follows a similar incident at last year's Great North Run in Newcastle, where medals mistakenly featured the Sunderland and Wear River – which is not part of the event.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
“I got Oppenheimer that job in the first place,” he complained, as though Oppie’s blunder reflected poorly on his own judgment.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
There were diplomatic blunders, transport errors and accommodation chaos.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
In so holding, Justice Horace Gray committed three major blunders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
AI-generated blunders do not necessarily destroy a lawyer's case, French lawyer Damien Charlotin told AFP.
From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026
It was one of the German chancellor’s worst strategic blunders.
From Salon ● May 21, 2026
People might say afterwards "Old Macarthur lost his nerve a bit, made some colossal blunders, sacrificed some of his best men."
From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie
They assumed it sensed danger, but it was actually steering them: They blundered into a goose nest, scattering the frightened adults.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
Martinez might have escaped justice, but he blundered.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2025
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
Mr. and Mrs. Ames felt that they had blundered on some magic which solved all of their problems.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
The Bath wing copped a first unfortunate yellow card for not releasing the tackled man and then a clumsy second, blundering into an airborne Kyle Steyn.
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2026
Leafy speaks for all of the author’s blundering characters when, at one low ebb, he sums himself up as “an aristocrat of pain and frustration, a prince of anguish and embarrassment.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2025
“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
“Take that, you blundering cretin!” someone shouted from behind me.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
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