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Pirro’s team blamed the Interior Department for the flub, saying it had misled prosecutors about the pool.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 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

But even with the one they flub — Koenig initially misidentifies Madonna’s fifth album as “Like a Prayer” before correcting himself to “Erotica” — they make a pretty solid case for their mistake.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2024

“When I see somebody make a flub on TV, I’m really not all that concerned,” said well-known aging researcher S. Jay Olshansky of the University of Illinois at Chicago.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 10, 2024

Second, the two elements being compared should be grammatically and semantically parallel, a requirement that’s easy to flub when the first is complex.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

Sen. Darline Graham flubbed an answer on a South Carolina debate stage Tuesday, but she’s far from the only politician who could use a refresher on Pacific geopolitics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 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

But on Gauff’s next opportunity to seal the victory, Jabeur badly flubbed an overhead.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 4, 2024

There was one line she flubbed a bit, but Justin covered for her, and no one in the audience even noticed.

From "Wonder" by R. J. Palacio

The Minion is a movie star flubbing that leap.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

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

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