misstep

Example Sentences

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There wasn’t one misstep or a single failure that led to the tragedy that will forever haunt Frank Perez.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2026

Dresser wrote that Anthropic has made a “strategic misstep to not acquire enough compute,” adding that “the market is ours to win, let’s execute accordingly.”

From MarketWatch • Apr. 13, 2026

Apple's "butterfly" keyboard design - a mechanism introduced in 2015 for laptop keyboards - was a "rare misstep in reliability", said Pickerell.

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026

Nowadays, other companies want to profit from the potential buzz from a rival’s misstep, too.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

But Liam...he was something precious, something I could break with a single misstep.

From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken