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

Instead of owning the blunder, Schmitt doubled down.

From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026

What a failure of judgment, of care; what a blunder.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

I panicked and began to blunder forward, mindcalling frantically, “Therem?”

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

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

Even as he ages, he never appears to learn from his blunders.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 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

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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 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

The student coordinator had blundered into the problem of syntactic ambiguity.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

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

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

Steve Carell voiced Gru, the world’s foremost supervillain, who relies on his army of blundering helpers — something like evil Oompa-Loompas — to run his lair.

From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2022

“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