blunder

The Daily Mirror says "Andrew cops blunder but.. it's not over".

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

A well-delivered line about Ms. Graham’s “not my thing” blunder drew loud laughter and applause.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

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

Einstein’s biggest blunder might not have been a blunder after all.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

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

He blunders on Warren Buffett, stating that his company, Berkshire Hathaway, hasn’t made a garment “in over fifty years,” but the company only closed its textile operations 41 years ago.

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

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

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

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

When she saw the dwarf standing at the end of the gangplank, Ysilla stopped so suddenly that Yandry blundered into her, and the pike almost slid off her back into the river.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

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

Poor, blundering Neville — Harry knew what it must have cost him to try and find them in the dark, to warn them.

From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling