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

The blunder was made by Rahmi Koc at the opening of a hospital in the western resort city of Izmir late Friday, but when the footage started circulating online it caused a backlash.

From Barron's ● Jun. 6, 2026

‘So we blunder around together,’ he said, ‘and let trouble find us. It’s always worked before.’

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

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

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 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

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

"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

She blundered into the forest and out again to a road.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

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

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

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

Dark figures were blundering through the trees; children were crying; anxious shouts and panicked voices were reverberating around them in the cold night air.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling