blunder
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He reportedly disliked the constant and later referred to it as his "biggest blunder."
From Science Daily ● Jun. 19, 2026
They rolled the dice with Nancy and made a dreadful blunder.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026
This one came in the form of a shocking Wembanyama blunder.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 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
Despite my good intentions, I often blunder, misstep, and stumble.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
In so holding, Justice Horace Gray committed three major blunders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 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
It was one of the German chancellor’s worst strategic blunders.
From Salon ● May 21, 2026
“Ford…has in his social endeavor committed economic blunders, if not crimes,” The Wall Street Journal opined on Jan. 7, 1914.
From Barron's ● May 20, 2026
He was patient enough with me and my blunders, but he seldom displayed any real warmth or friendliness.
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
She blundered on the Epstein files by boasting about big revelations that never materialized.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 2, 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
Barely a week after setting a franchise record with 111 regular-season victories, the biggest winners in Dodgers history have blundered into a vastly different moniker.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2022
I blundered through the darkness, crashing through the underbrush.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
Her hopes of justice were raised ahead of the court case in 2003, only to be let down by legal "blundering".
From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2026
Leafy speaks for all of the author’s blundering characters when, at one low ebb, he sums himself up as “an aristocrat of pain and frustration, a prince of anguish and embarrassment.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2025
“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
Our involvement is not that of an adversary in a straightforward game, but more like blundering into someone else’s accident.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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"The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant
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