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Finally, after piling blunder upon blunder for four months, the public relations team at got something right.

From The Guardian • Feb. 12, 2012

They heaped blunder upon blunder, and held him up to ridicule with all the wealth of invective characteristic of the learned controversy of the age.

From Jerome Cardan A Biographical Study by Waters, W. G. (William George)

An unobserving person, still seeking the key to their intimacy, could easily blunder upon the old bromide and repeat that a pretty woman invariably prefers a plain one for a foil.

From Winner Take All by Evans, Larry

Emboldened by this discovery, they took malicious delight in heaping blunder upon blunder, and played dire havoc with that sixth book of the "Iliad," never sparing etymology, syntax, nor prosody.

From Stories by Foreign Authors: Polish, Greek, Belgian, Hungarian by Sienkiewicz, Henryk

Why, why, is it that I must always blunder upon such scenes, to make me miserable for days!

From 'Me--Smith' by Hoskins, Gayle Porter




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