Example Sentences

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It was one of the German chancellor’s worst strategic blunders.

From Salon • May 21, 2026

“Ford…has in his social endeavor committed economic blunders, if not crimes,” The Wall Street Journal opined on Jan. 7, 1914.

From Barron's • May 20, 2026

Thousands of widows and widowers have been short-changed of their Social Security payments as a result of blunders by the Social Security Administration, a government watchdog has revealed.

From MarketWatch • May 1, 2026

For 250 years, it hasn’t been Archimedes in a bathtub, but tinkerers in workshops and scientists in labs, embracing—and capitalizing on—their blunders.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

I now know that many blunders have been committed here, by young and old alike.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank