blunder

Example Sentences

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It is not the first time there has been an order blunder in Orkney in recent years.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

The best picture blunder has kept “Moonlight” and “La La Land” under the microscope for nine years now, and made the incident the blueprint for each ensuing Oscar season’s inevitable drama.

From Salon • Mar. 11, 2026

It was my first Valentine’s Day with my new girlfriend, and I was left scrambling when I realized my blunder too late to find a table anywhere.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 22, 2026

A manufacturing blunder recently turned a smiling horse plushie into an icon of China's young employees.

From Barron's • Feb. 5, 2026

I was not even my parents’ son in 1928 but a devilishly smooth impostor, awaiting their slightest blunder as an excuse to move in—preferably without violence, but not necessarily—to assert my true identity.

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger