blunder
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A press conference took place a few days later, where MacDougall and colleague Cdr Greg Burns were grilled over the blunder.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
His blunder is captured in the false proposition that birthright citizenship “crossed the Atlantic with the colonists—and was adopted with little fanfare after the Revolution” as an outgrowth of the common law of England.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
At the time, it wasn’t clear whether Kidd was an advocate of the Doncic deal or a victim of a front-office blunder.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026
He reportedly disliked the constant and later referred to it as his "biggest blunder."
From Science Daily ● Jun. 19, 2026
They heard him blunder against the trunk which rocked violently.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
In so holding, Justice Horace Gray committed three major blunders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
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
The urge to catalog the myriad blunders in order to “learn from the mistakes” is for the most part an exercise in denial and self-deception.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
She blundered on the Epstein files by boasting about big revelations that never materialized.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 2, 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
The littluns screamed and blundered about, fleeing from the edge of the forest, and one of them broke the ring of biguns in his terror.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
Co-written and directed by France’s Olivier Assayas in an adaptation of the novel by Giuliano da Empoli, the movie has the blundering, obvious feel of a made-for-cable TV item from the 1990s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 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
He said Grok's "unrecognizable" and "blundering" play enabled o3 to claim a succession of "convincing wins".
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2025
But he got up and came blundering on toward them.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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