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After her debate flub, Graham tried to spin it by saying she focused on “kitchen-table issues” such as affordability.

From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026

Intel’s stock has crashed 17%, wiping out more than $46 billion in market value, since executives revealed the flub on the company’s fourth-quarter earnings call Thursday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 24, 2026

The “Cold Mountain” gaffe was a rare instance of a “Good Hang” research flub, one that inadvertently managed to illuminate more of Paltrow’s self-perception.

From Salon ● Jan. 16, 2026

It was the sort of public flub that might have derailed any other startup, but it was quickly forgotten as Musk moved on to his next viral moment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 4, 2026

The same face I’d watched flub up Abraham Lincoln’s assassination just hours before stared back at me, although I looked a little paler now.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

In the first half of his first game back, Tatum flubbed a dunk and O’Malley winced.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026

Iamealeava stays after practice to correct throws he flubbed, repeating them each at least five times.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2025

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

The most likely person to want to remind me of that day wouldn’t be a fellow operator, or even the commanding officer whose orders I flubbed.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

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

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

After flubbing both the signature and the technical, Abbi has to pull it out for the showstopper.

From Salon ● Oct. 14, 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