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
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
That left hand is all over the place, dancing across the entire lower registry of the instrument, perfectly in time and never making a false step.
From Slate • Jun. 7, 2019
If you think about it hard enough, if you trace potential reverberations long enough, every step can be a false step, any move can lead to an unintended consequence.
From "Every Day" by David Levithan
