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blunder upon



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Finally, after piling blunder upon blunder for four months, the public relations team at got something right.

From The Guardian • Feb. 12, 2012

They heaped blunder upon blunder, and held him up to ridicule with all the wealth of invective characteristic of the learned controversy of the age.

From Jerome Cardan A Biographical Study by Waters, W. G. (William George)

And so Mr. Ormsby continues, heaping blunder upon blunder, to a greater length than we can follow him.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860 by Various

He can't get right if he tries—and if he does blunder upon it, he can't stay right six months, let him do his best—morally impossible!

From Quodlibet by Kennedy, John Pendleton

The board system is well adapted to secure deliberation, but not promptness and unity of action nor responsibility, because one member may easily shift the responsibility for an error or blunder upon his colleagues.

From Government in the United States National, State and Local by Garner, James Wilford




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