blunder
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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
To state the obvious, Manning’s blunder is not in the area code of French’s tweet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Einstein’s biggest blunder might not have been a blunder after all.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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In the process, said current and former employees and investors interviewed by The Wall Street Journal, the highflying company has struggled with compliance failures, legal challenges and software blunders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
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
It used to be far easier to spot computer-generated visual creations - often used by fraudsters - because AI would make blunders, like adding an extra finger or something else that was obviously weird.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
AI-generated blunders do not necessarily destroy a lawyer's case, French lawyer Damien Charlotin told AFP.
From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026
“With all due respect, ma’am,” the man said with a smile, “the rebels would first have to capture a prisoner. Given their blunders, it is an unlikely prospect.”
From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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That’s why Evgeny blundered into Dmitri’s shop, although he admits that he’s none too successful at this gig.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 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 other veterans, though, Allman, thinks Metro blundered in framing the station as the Westwood/VA Hospital stop.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 18, 2023
I blundered through the darkness, crashing through the underbrush.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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When the toys use messaging apps to control their owners in ways that go terrifyingly unnoticed, humankind itself seems to be blundering about with its brain unplugged.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
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
He said Grok's "unrecognizable" and "blundering" play enabled o3 to claim a succession of "convincing wins".
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2025
I saw him through the window, seizing his horse’s mane, and mounting in his blundering brutal manner, and sidling and backing away.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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