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The vehicle, which does, underneath all those angles, feature a truck bed with a motorized cover, was almost immediately labeled a colossal blunder.

From Slate ● Nov. 9, 2026

Einstein famously referred to his introduction of the cosmological constant as his "biggest blunder," since his original equations without the additional term could have predicted an expanding universe.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

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

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

Instead of owning the blunder, Schmitt doubled down.

From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026

I panicked and began to blunder forward, mindcalling frantically, “Therem?”

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

There were diplomatic blunders, transport errors and accommodation chaos.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

No organization on earth is more puffed-up about itself than the NFL—excuse me, the National Football League, as all the television surrogates say—and yet it’s as capable of the same blunders as anyone else.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

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

Turning baseball into the Dodgers versus the Dodger-nots is a convenient way to obscure your own blunders.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

Little children, such as Anne, must never, ever correct their elders, no matter how many blunders they make or how often they let their imaginations run away with them.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

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

"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

Barely a week after setting a franchise record with 111 regular-season victories, the biggest winners in Dodgers history have blundered into a vastly different moniker.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2022

Harry blundered up the corridor, barely noticing where he was going, he was in such a fury.

From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling

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

At the 1994 tournament in Linares, Spain, Mr. Kasparov—as the camera later showed—made a blundering move, let go of the piece, changed his mind and moved it back.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026

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

They sensitively dramatize one father’s fear that everything he does to make things better will permanently ruin everything — though that doesn’t stop him from blundering ahead anyway.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2022

He liked to set things up, and had an abhorrence of blundering along without having considered the alternatives well in advance.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols