blunder

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

He covered his blunder hastily. “...a small raise after we see how you work out.”

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

There were diplomatic blunders, transport errors and accommodation chaos.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 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

In so holding, Justice Horace Gray committed three major blunders.

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

I had heard of the foolish blunders that small-town boys made when they went to big cities and I wanted to be very cautious.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

Instead, the Eagles had to kickoff with eight seconds to go, and they blundered again.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 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 SVB, First Republic blundered into trouble as the Federal Reserve began raising interest rates almost 14 months ago.

From Washington Post ● May 1, 2023

The other birds blundered into the air, their heavy bodies crashing through branches as they fled.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

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

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

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

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

I had come blundering like a poor fool on ground that was preserved.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier