blunder

An MSP who faced ridicule over a blunder at a Holyrood committee has said she suffered a "momentary lapse" brought on by lack of sleep and a chest infection.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

The blunder follows a similar incident at last year's Great North Run in Newcastle, where medals mistakenly featured the Sunderland and Wear River – which is not part of the event.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026

He would later tell friends that introducing it had been his "greatest blunder."

From Science Daily ● Aug. 18, 2026

His blunder is captured in the false proposition that birthright citizenship “crossed the Atlantic with the colonists—and was adopted with little fanfare after the Revolution” as an outgrowth of the common law of England.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026

But my blunder was in manners, his in morals.

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

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

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

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

Anxiety caused him to make so many blunders the rest of the day that the whole shop’s attention was irritably focused on himself.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

She blundered on the Epstein files by boasting about big revelations that never materialized.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 2, 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

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

Not hearing the startled voices behind her, not seeing where or how she went, she blundered somehow to the great front door and out into the soft warm night.

From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson

He thanked his team and family before blundering into acknowledging the prime minister in the Royal Box.

From BBC ● Jun. 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

“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

“We’ve been Disapparating under the Invisibility Cloak as an extra precaution. And we left really early, because, as Harry says, we’d heard somebody blundering around.”

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling