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

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

S.Q., cheerful now that he’d made up for his earlier blunder, smiled and patted the miserable students as he passed.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart

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

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

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

From Salon ● May 21, 2026

Plus, Iran and the U.S. move closer on a proposal to restart talks, and some beloved products were born of blunders.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026

The urge to catalog the myriad blunders in order to “learn from the mistakes” is for the most part an exercise in denial and self-deception.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

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

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

The littluns screamed and blundered about, fleeing from the edge of the forest, and one of them broke the ring of biguns in his terror.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding

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

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026

Co-written and directed by France’s Olivier Assayas in an adaptation of the novel by Giuliano da Empoli, the movie has the blundering, obvious feel of a made-for-cable TV item from the 1990s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 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

He liked to set things up, and had an abhorrence of blundering along without having considered the alternatives well in advance.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols