blunder

Example Sentences

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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

Some might call the stalemate and the passion and the thud and blunder compelling, but you have low expectations if that's the case.

From BBC • Mar. 8, 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

Moreover, he was privy to a discussion in which the fundamental blunder about the shape of the peptide bond was made.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson