false step
Example Sentences
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The only false step in the sketch is the ending, which goes on on a cheap joke.
From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2026
Rather, it’s the poignant devastation of knowing one false step or bad decision could reshape your life that knocks us over.
From Salon • Apr. 13, 2025
Bill Belichick creates a culture of accountability and diligence and also can correct the right guard when he takes a false step on a trap block.
From Washington Post • Dec. 16, 2021
That left hand is all over the place, dancing across the entire lower registry of the instrument, perfectly in time and never making a false step.
From Slate • Jun. 7, 2019
It’s worth looking at this false step before discussing Descartes’s influence in areas where he was more right than wrong.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
