false step

Example Sentences

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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.

From Salon • Apr. 13, 2025

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

From Slate • Feb. 24, 2023

Bill Belichick creates a culture of accountability and diligence and also can correct the right guard when he takes a false step on a trap block.

From Washington Post • Dec. 16, 2021

Not everything works in the staging: When the action is this exposed, any false step is magnified.

From New York Times • Nov. 21, 2021

It’s worth looking at this false step before discussing Descartes’s influence in areas where he was more right than wrong.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin