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false step

noun as in careless act

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Any false step would be immediately processed into a viral moment on right-wing airwaves.

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It’s the poignant devastation of knowing one false step or bad decision could reshape your life that knocks us over.

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Rather, it’s the poignant devastation of knowing one false step or bad decision could reshape your life that knocks us over.

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Gen. Edwin Meese, Michael Mukasey and William Barr, joined by prominent conservative professors, agree on the stakes: A false step by the court “would be ruinous for the Nation’s tradition of free and fair elections.”

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Don’t make a false step of your own in this week’s Slate News Quiz.

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