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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

And so Mr. Ormsby continues, heaping blunder upon blunder, to a greater length than we can follow him.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860 by Various

It makes an apt preparation for the far more serious blunder upon which the main part of the action turns.

From Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England by Henry Norman Hudson

Sometimes they vary their programme by prowling blindly through the woods, singly or in pairs, trusting to luck to blunder upon their game; for they are wretched hunters.

From A Little Brother to the Bear and other Animal Stories by William J. (William Joseph) Long

Increasingly this feeling is spreading among Dissenters, and the Church, if it were wise—its history is a career of blunder upon blunder—would have laid its plans to recover such. 

From The Religious Life of London by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie




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