colossal blunder
Example Sentences
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First, it was only then, several months in, I realized I’d made a colossal blunder when trying to hang my precious high-tech feeder out of squirrels’ reach.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2024
Mr. Blinken marveled at Finland’s accession into NATO, suggesting that it amounted a colossal blunder by Mr. Putin, who previously had relatively friendly relations with Helsinki.
From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2023
Presumably owing to Semi-Tough’s notoriety as a book, a Burt Reynolds movie and nearly a David Merrick Broadway musical, Sports Illustrated removed Dan from college football and relocated him in the NFL, a colossal blunder.
From Golf Digest ● Mar. 8, 2019
What a colossal blunder for a Christian university that in many other ways has sought to demonstrate it has emerged from its so-called “bubble” into the light of day-to-day life.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 9, 2016
For a long moment he wondered if it had all been a colossal blunder.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
