blunder

Because the ICC has no army or police force, it can prosecute leaders only if they fall from power or badly blunder.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 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 rolled the dice with Nancy and made a dreadful blunder.

From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026

Instead, they committed a world- class blunder on an international stage.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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

It was one of the German chancellor’s worst strategic blunders.

From Salon ● May 21, 2026

“Ford…has in his social endeavor committed economic blunders, if not crimes,” The Wall Street Journal opined on Jan. 7, 1914.

From Barron's ● May 20, 2026

He was patient enough with me and my blunders, but he seldom displayed any real warmth or friendliness.

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood

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

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

Like other veterans, though, Allman, thinks Metro blundered in framing the station as the Westwood/VA Hospital stop.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 18, 2023

He blundered out of the triangle toward the drop to the white sand.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding

When the toys use messaging apps to control their owners in ways that go terrifyingly unnoticed, humankind itself seems to be blundering about with its brain unplugged.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026

Her hopes of justice were raised ahead of the court case in 2003, only to be let down by legal "blundering".

From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2026

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

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

It’s as though I’d been blundering about in the dark for days, weeks, months, then finally caught hold of something.

From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins