blunder
Example Sentences
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“Michael” is that disastrous blunder, the thing so completely enveloped in its own self-righteousness that looks terrible no matter where you’re standing.
From Salon • Apr. 25, 2026
Is it a PR strategy, or another business blunder?
From Slate • Apr. 10, 2026
Maybe not switching sooner was a blunder, but you are on the right track to correcting that.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 18, 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
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
Vocabulary lists containing blunder
"The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant
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English Words Derived from Old Norse
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