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
He would later tell friends that introducing it had been his "greatest blunder."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 18, 2026
I panicked and began to blunder forward, mindcalling frantically, “Therem?”
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
There were mighty blunders off the field too under Jarmond, including an email that went out to donors that came with an attachment revealing personal information and spending tallies of the department’s biggest donors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
It used to be far easier to spot computer-generated visual creations - often used by fraudsters - because AI would make blunders, like adding an extra finger or something else that was obviously weird.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
AI-generated blunders do not necessarily destroy a lawyer's case, French lawyer Damien Charlotin told AFP.
From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026
Even as he ages, he never appears to learn from his blunders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026
Anxiety caused him to make so many blunders the rest of the day that the whole shop’s attention was irritably focused on himself.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
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
"It should have been drawn, but Ding blundered as the pressure grew."
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
Bill started up laughing; then suddenly he fell silent and blundered away through the bushes.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
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
He said Grok's "unrecognizable" and "blundering" play enabled o3 to claim a succession of "convincing wins".
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2025
Now Dimple could focus on not blundering the steps and falling off the stage.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
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