misstep
Example Sentences
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It could be an expensive misstep to scale up a robot army to meet rush-hour demand in a city only to see many of those vehicles sit idle during nonpeak times.
Mr. Ariosto’s credulous description of warp drives isn’t the only misstep in the book.
The virus is so contagious that any misstep could kill the patient on board and infect the crew members, who would then be vectors to spread the deadly pathogens across America.
He relays the hopes and missteps of “African socialism” in Tanzania and Ghana, and the continuing tragedy of the Congo.
Too late, I realized my misstep—Anna May had wanted to use my arrival as an excuse to end the interview, and I’d botched that for her.
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