blunder

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

“Iran has definitely taken a hit, but I do think the war was a strategic blunder because it has made Iran stronger in many ways,” said Dina Esfandiary, an Iran expert at Bloomberg Economics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026

They rolled the dice with Nancy and made a dreadful blunder.

From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026

I know the unspoken rules of boys, but with girls I sense that I am always on the verge of some unforeseen, calamitous blunder.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

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

“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

For the game, for the third straight game, the Lakers made bunches of mistakes that became bunches of baskets, this time 17 blunders that became 30 Oklahoma City points.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2026

I bring up McCandless’s hubris and the dumb mistakes he made—the two or three readily avoidable blunders that ended up costing him his life.

From "Into the Wild" 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

But Ding blundered on move 55 and Gukesh exploited the error to clinch the title.

From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2024

Further, prosecutors blundered in January 2023 by adding a “gun enhancement” when filing involuntary manslaughter charges against Baldwin and Gutierrez Reed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 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

He blundered into the bathroom while Adam was bathing and saw the ugly bullet scar and heard himself ask against his will, “Father, what’s that scar?”

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

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

“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

“Prydain belonged to us before the race of men came. You drove us underground. You plundered our mines, you blundering clodpoles! You stole our treasures, and you keep on stealing them, you clumsy oafs...”

From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander