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Pirro’s team blamed the Interior Department for the flub, saying it had misled prosecutors about the pool.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026

There is a lot of faith in last year’s expansion club, but the potential draft-day flub of trading away Flau’jae Johnson has shaken some of that.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2026

Yesterday, we asked whether you’ve encountered an AI flub.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026

“When I see somebody make a flub on TV, I’m really not all that concerned,” said well-known aging researcher S. Jay Olshansky of the University of Illinois at Chicago.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 10, 2024

Second, the two elements being compared should be grammatically and semantically parallel, a requirement that’s easy to flub when the first is complex.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

But on the day it mattered most, she flubbed her tryout and failed to make the team.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2026

Redick said Saturday the Lakers flubbed eight of their 12 after timeout plays against Memphis on Friday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 5, 2026

I was grateful for Richard when I began doing another exercise video on repeat, one led by a frigid ballerina who never flubbed or joked.

From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2024

Aliyah Alpert, who finished ninth in 2022, missed the bee entirely last year because she flubbed the word “recoup” in the Yavapai County spelling bee in her home state of Arizona.

From Seattle Times ● May 29, 2024

“What do you mean? I just flubbed it all up.”

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

When he ran for prime minister last year, there were real questions about whether he would take to the political side of the job, and he stumbled at times, flubbing his French, for instance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026

Weiss hasn’t been able to spend one day in her tenure at CBS without flubbing something and getting called on it by concerned citizens, and Washington Post readers recently joined the paper’s union in protesting.

From Salon ● Mar. 7, 2026

The reasoning is straightforward: Why take a risk of legitimizing his rivals, or becoming a target on stage, or just flubbing, when you’re already in a category of your own?

From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2023

Bard did nearly as well, but it interpreted one “9” as a “0,” thus flubbing the final total.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 5, 2023

But when a man flubbed a job, and kept on flubbing it, then Mr. Henry Grenoble stepped in and carried out his own job—general managing.

From Sense from Thought Divide by H. R. van Dongen