misstep
Example Sentences
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It added that the cruise operator’s earnings call “reinforced a troubling pattern of execution lapses and strategic missteps.”
From Barron's
The company reported lower profit and said that prior missteps, including the mistiming of its increase in Caribbean capacity, would hurt its 2026 performance.
A series of missteps—including a global outage at Square—prompted Dorsey to take on a more active role at the company.
He’d taken a misstep and fallen backward, knocking over three men who had the misfortune of standing near the wall of the Alamo.
From Literature
But the painful details of the fire — the missteps of the fire department, the empty reservoir — didn’t matter when it came to deciding how to rebuild, he said.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
