flub

Example Sentences

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You may have just one opportunity to rerecord an answer; if you flub that, there’s no taking it back.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2026

Perhaps the most famous flub was committed by Yale economics professor Irving Fisher on Oct.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2025

“When I see somebody make a flub on TV, I’m really not all that concerned,” said well-known aging researcher S. Jay Olshansky of the University of Illinois at Chicago.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 10, 2024

In the widely circulated videos of King's performance, the 34-year-old singer seemed to flub the lyrics to Parton's song.

From Salon • Jan. 22, 2024

The same face I’d watched flub up Abraham Lincoln’s assassination just hours before stared back at me, although I looked a little paler now.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin