flub

Even Moore acknowledged the flub that had torpedoed his team’s chances.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

Pirro’s team blamed the Interior Department for the flub, saying it had misled prosecutors about the pool.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026

Yesterday, we asked whether you’ve encountered an AI flub.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026

The “Cold Mountain” gaffe was a rare instance of a “Good Hang” research flub, one that inadvertently managed to illuminate more of Paltrow’s self-perception.

From Salon ● Jan. 16, 2026

Second, the two elements being compared should be grammatically and semantically parallel, a requirement that’s easy to flub when the first is complex.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

Sen. Darline Graham flubbed an answer on a South Carolina debate stage Tuesday, but she’s far from the only politician who could use a refresher on Pacific geopolitics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

From abandoned panic rooms to flubbed Ghostface executions, the characters make so many dumb choices that eventually we’re convinced that Williamson is frustrating us by design.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026

I was grateful for Richard when I began doing another exercise video on repeat, one led by a frigid ballerina who never flubbed or joked.

From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2024

Because all the conventional problems of filmmaking — like flubbed lines and imperfect framing — exist alongside the possibility of dropping a perfectly cooked sea bream, a dish was waiting if another take was needed.

From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2024

Whenever I flubbed a line or didn’t perform an action at the right moment, my score decreased and a warning flashed on my display.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

The Minion is a movie star flubbing that leap.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

When he ran for prime minister last year, there were real questions about whether he would take to the political side of the job, and he stumbled at times, flubbing his French, for instance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026

The reasoning is straightforward: Why take a risk of legitimizing his rivals, or becoming a target on stage, or just flubbing, when you’re already in a category of your own?

From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2023

Bard did nearly as well, but it interpreted one “9” as a “0,” thus flubbing the final total.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 5, 2023

But when a man flubbed a job, and kept on flubbing it, then Mr. Henry Grenoble stepped in and carried out his own job—general managing.

From Sense from Thought Divide by H. R. van Dongen