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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

What a failure of judgment, of care; what a blunder.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

“You are in luck.—Your only blunder was confined to my ear, when you imagined a certain friend of ours in love with the lady.”

From "Emma" by Jane Austen

There were diplomatic blunders, transport errors and accommodation chaos.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

No organization on earth is more puffed-up about itself than the NFL—excuse me, the National Football League, as all the television surrogates say—and yet it’s as capable of the same blunders as anyone else.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 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

Judge Linda Kevins of New York State's Supreme Court warned in a January ruling that such blunders wasted the time and money of both the opposing party and the court.

From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026

Of course, Bloom thought on reflection, one of his worst blunders was the article on Joe’s beanfield he’d done for the Voice of the People.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

They assumed it sensed danger, but it was actually steering them: They blundered into a goose nest, scattering the frightened adults.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

But Ding blundered on move 55 and Gukesh exploited the error to clinch the title.

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

Harry blundered up the corridor, barely noticing where he was going, he was in such a fury.

From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling

Co-written and directed by France’s Olivier Assayas in an adaptation of the novel by Giuliano da Empoli, the movie has the blundering, obvious feel of a made-for-cable TV item from the 1990s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

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

“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

“Take that, you blundering cretin!” someone shouted from behind me.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia