How To Use Blunder In A Sentence
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Blunders made by the Coalition Provisional Authority -- disbanding the Iraqi army, dissolving the Baath party, failing to stop the lotting -- are not the main problem.
Jonathan Steele: Why the Democrats Should Use the "Defeat" Word
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Twitter users shared video clips of his blunder.
The Sun
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After much blundering and backing, it stopped at the door: rolling heavily from side to side when its other motion had ceased, as if it had taken cold in its damp stable, and between that, and the having been required in its dropsical old age to move at any faster pace than a walk, were distressed by shortness of wind.
American Notes for General Circulation
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In other words, forgiveness is for real sin, not for foibles, mistakes, excusable blunders, and things we can't help.
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It took the intervention of the media, and the consequent uproar to stop what would have been a truly monumental blunder.
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They pressed ahead, blundering into the woods through the darkening maze of trees and shrubs.
Christianity Today
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Yet, more serious is the blunder in his statement "the Finzi-Continis moved out of society altogether and began to cultivate what B's father sees as absurd pretensions to nobility (the name Finzi-Contini in Italian actually suggests 'fake little counts').
Bassani's Father
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So I slipped through the flies, blundered through the warren of half-remembered alcoves and out the stage door.
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The guileless McKenzie is of course immune, as he blunders through a palsied old world.
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The term escalate became popular during the Vietnam War and refers to the United States' significantly increasing its involvement, but the term also carries an undertone of blunder.
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Why do you blunder about and play the fool?
THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
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The whole thing has been a hideous blunder, and the idea of encumbering a force of four thousand men with something like thirty thousand camp followers, and with a train of no less than nineteen thousand bullocks, to say nothing of other draught animals, is the most preposterous thing I ever heard of.
At the Point of the Bayonet A Tale of the Mahratta War
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These multitude blunders of the FFI 2004 only confirm the opinion that the organizers should be comprised of young people, instead of old-timers who suddenly resurface with the revival of the film scene.
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One of the most important things will be to stop the two countries from blundering into conventional conflict without realising the risk.
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The huge sum has been set aside for payouts to tens of thousands of patients who suffered blunders in hospital.
The Sun
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Revenue are going after people in a blunderbuss approach without making allowances for the fact that some people have inherited this problem.
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BILL SCHNEIDER, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST: Well, Carol, it was the gaffe of the week and maybe the campaign when John Kerry made what he called a blundered joke about President Bush, which came out as an insult to U.S. soldiers in Iraq.
CNN Transcript Nov 4, 2006
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Carlotta was a "prod"; it was only because she came at the end of the alphabet that she was left out, but thanks to Betty's fly-away fashion of running off to speak to some junior ushers, and then calling the Blunderbuss, whose mother wanted to see her a minute, nobody could find out positively who it was that had been "flunked out" of 19 --.
Betty Wales Senior
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Humanity has come so far, yet we're still just a bunch of blundering boobs who've learned nothing from past mistakes.
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They become dusted with pollen from male flowers and, as they blunder around, they transfer it to the female flowers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Humans are discussed as arrogant and blundering, an unflattering contrast to the innocent and compassionate chimps or gorillas.
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Unfortunately, rather than considering specific solutions, opponents of spam are currently adopting a blunderbuss approach, latching on to every anti-spam technology going in the vain hope that one of them might do the job.
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Both blundered about as others plunged the world into conflict.
Times, Sunday Times
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Les Italiens ont leurs _spropositi_, leur arlequin ses balourdises, les Anglois leurs _blunders_, les Irlandois leurs _bulls_.
Tales and Novels — Volume 04
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She cast a sidelong glance at Eric to see if he had noticed her blunder.
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For seamen, special patterns of musket were introduced and the musketoon, or blunderbuss, became a shipboard weapon useful for discouraging both boarders and putative mutineers.
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Both blundered about as others plunged the world into conflict.
Times, Sunday Times
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They need to be told that they will not become criminals because of the department's bungles and blunders.
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Forest Goblin shamans are prone to run off dizzily, or just blunder about, unable to distinguish fact from venom-induced fiction.
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The Black Cats boss says the ropey ref made two major blunders which cost his side all three points.
The Sun
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Seemingly it's because Sen McCain blundering of information of facts about the War in Iraq has been discovered.
Obama: McCain should admit he was wrong on surge comments
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MIT Press The bombing for the sake of "frightfulness" (an imitation of the Germans) and the insolent demand for unconditional surrender, and the blind policy with Russia were all blunders as well as wrongs, and have produced a stale-mate where materially there was a clear victory.
'The Letters of George Santayana'
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The days when you could blunder around all over Europe virtually unopposed have gone, you know!
LOHENGRIN
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On the other hand his risky and ill-judged decision to appear before the Petrov Royal Commission in 1954 was a significant blunder.
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As can be seen from the failure to pinpoint him this time round, the lapse in security was a careless and costly blunder.
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But he knows the odd blunder can make games more interesting.
The Sun
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The Cardiff centre made a huge blunder three years ago when a couple's last viable embryo was placed in the wrong woman.
The Sun
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Currently companies are putting stuff into letter boxes using a blunderbuss approach.
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His countenance was the droll medley of fun, shrewdness, and blundering, that is so often found in the Irish peasant, and which appears to be characteristic of entire races in the island.
Miles Wallingford Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore"
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Of course _Anneke_ couldn't be "electrified" -- but you may find many less evident blunders than that would be.
Shenandoah Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911
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They later made a second Chernobylesque blunder by bodging a highly-explosive warhead part back together with tape.
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The dominick hen is setting," ventured Dannie, and Mary's face showed that he had blundered on the truth.
At the Foot of the Rainbow
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Back when you were plotting your online profile, the delete key and edit function bailed you out of blunders before posting to the cyber-nation.
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The report outlines a string of major blunders.
The Sun
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Well, he's still there - and, no matter what this serial blunderer does, he will stay put as long as the people are not given a choice in the matter.
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An embarrassing blunder nearly blighted his career before it got off the ground.
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If the pollsters are overestimating Labour's support once more, the consequences of their blunders could leave a lot of leftish voters looking very silly.
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The winner made one bad blunder six fences from home but that could be put down more to frustration than anything else.
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If we give up our vague, devastating quest, I suspect the Iraqis will have a lot of suddenly frantic help from the chaos-sponsors and bystanders in their neighborhood, the countries which have been so deeply delighted at the ongoing spectacle of America's ignorant blunder, at the unhoped-for crippling of America, at the astonishing waste of American lives and resources.
Frank Dwyer: Better Numbers
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To me, this paints a picture of a deeply insecure woman who had long since waved goodbye to the verge of paranoia and blundered into the chasm of abject delusion.
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I couldn't really have blundered on anything quite as good as this.
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Robbins was looking over the morning _Pic. _, detecting, as young reporters will, the gross blunders in the make-up, and the envious blue-pencilling his own stuff had received.
Roads of Destiny
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His mathematical friends could have told him, that though it was talked of as a polygon, it was not supposed to be a square; but _polygon_ would not have rhymed to _stare_; and poets, when they launch into the ocean of words, must have an eye to the helm; at all events a poet, who is not supposed to be a student of the exact sciences, may be forgiven for a mathematical blunder.
Tales and Novels — Volume 04
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Obviously a government can be punished for its blunders at a general election.
Times, Sunday Times
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The council has now promised to withdraw the advert, blaming an administrative error for the blunder.
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The notion that she was seconds from rescue before the blunder must be intolerable for her anguished parents to bear.
The Sun
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And they are still out there now, killing the game and blundering into the path of backs who are far better qualified to attack.
Times, Sunday Times
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These are molecules that are targeted to specific parts of the inflammatory cascade, so they interfere very specifically with inflammation and they very often don't have the blunderbuss side effects.
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The goldfinches chittered and sang like drunken canaries and once in a thunderstorm a barred owl blundered into that fake crystal chandelier she had always detested.
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Although he does a great job commentating on a fast and unpredictable sport its the blunders and one liners he will be remembered for.
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Come back and shut the door, thou blundering dizzard!
The King's Daughters
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Nor would they appear to be aware that the blunders committed by the censors, such as they were, were by no means confined to malapert blue-pencilling of items of information that might have appeared without disclosing anything whatever to the enemy.
Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918
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Other blunders interfere more with the visual integrity of the building than its structure.
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Were they all pretending to be ignorant in order to trap him into making some punishable blunder.
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This proved a huge tactical blunder.
The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
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By defending his blundering ways, this self-serving little weasel shows callous disregard for that poor little girl.
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Clear Channel, KFI, and John and Ken have been in the wrong to purvey, condone, and sell hate speech in the past and are in the wrong now as they blunder this opportunity to make amends to several key Los Angeles communities.
Jorge-Mario Cabrera: John and Ken: The Best Apology Is a Farewell Message
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It is a good workman that never blunders. (918).
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I played the gomeral brawly, but in the darkness we blundered ram-stam through the Sassenach lines.
A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45
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This may be criticised on a number of grounds, such as its acceptance of a blunderbuss hit and miss approach, or its presumption of guilt in relation to those whose premises were being searched.
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Parodies of the "expressionistic" blunder quickly sprang up in the Egyptian blogosphere; a popular one shows a young man who has inserted himself into the photograph and flies superhero-like ahead of the all of the leaders; in another photoshop collage Obama is looking at the fake photo, laughing.
Joscelyn Jurich: US Military Funding to Egypt Needs Investigation
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He had innocently blundered into a private dispute.
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He attempted to cover up his blunders by shunting the blame onto dead subordinates.
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Gloucester's defensive blunders only helped the visitors' cause.
Times, Sunday Times
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In May, 1593, sick, and 'tumbled down the hill by every practice,' he would go on exclaiming against the administrative blunders which had let England be baffled and 'beggared' by a nation without fortifications, and, for long, without effective arms.
Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography
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Gloucester's defensive blunders only helped the visitors' cause.
Times, Sunday Times
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He said that the tax was a major political blunder.
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The blunder was the apparent failure of detectives to inform the Parole Board that he had threatened to return to kill her.
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A frenzied grouper blundered into Neil, striking his arms and legs.
RUSHING TO PARADISE
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But they went on to make blunder after blunder and it ended up a messy match.
Times, Sunday Times
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As a matter of fact this whole rising, if it could be called that, was a succession of blunders, mistakes and errors.
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So maybe old Rene wasn't such a blunderer after all!
Ayn Rand, Wise Philosopher Despite Some Bad Arguments, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Wiping his sweaty palm on his jeans, he thought about the many times he had blundered in his attempts to ask girls out.
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He used to say man has had his chance - man has bungled, man has blundered, man has built up a civilization of violence and war, of hatred and strife - the new civilization will be built by women.
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But Evan was unfazed, and has gone on to write a series of important stories on the way Rumsfeld's forward-leaning style has shaken up the Pentagon, but also contributed to strategic blunders from Abu Ghraib to undermanning the Iraq occupation.
The Editor's Desk
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The minister has made a series of political blunders.
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Prime Minister Edward Natapei forfeited his seat after missing three consecutive sittings without notifying the speaker, a blunder one analyst called "flabbergasting".
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But they went on to make blunder after blunder and it ended up a messy match.
Times, Sunday Times
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To combat this double machination of Satan, he was obliged carefully to reperuse the work, and to form this singular list of the blunders of printers working under the influence of the devil.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 475, February 5, 1831
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Traditional chemistry uses a blunderbuss approach, based on the idea that if you produce 10,000 variations of a drug that seems to work a bit you will probably come up with something that works a bit better.
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It is a skillful technician that never blunders.
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Victims of the blunders usually have their buildings and contents insurance cancelled and often struggle to renew cover at a reasonable price.
Times, Sunday Times
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Somehow we blundered into the war.
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The blunder was the apparent failure of detectives to inform the Parole Board that he had threatened to return to kill her.
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No doubt, America has had some terrible foreign policy blunders - some real, others embellished or imagined.
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The report outlines a string of major blunders.
The Sun
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She could not forgive the nimiety of blunders and Carmen offered no apologies.
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When she sits back down, my mouth makes one of its first and most terrible swift blunders.
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It was the most important moment of his career to date, and having blagged my way through several layers of security I'd blundered into the middle of it.
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The notion that she was seconds from rescue before the blunder must be intolerable for her anguished parents to bear.
The Sun
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This blunder means that we have miseducated a whole generation of young Irish people into having underage sex.
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A failure is a man who has blundered but is not capable of cashing in on the experience. Elbert Hubbard
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That his staggering blunder about his tax debts happened while he was still in opposition will save him.
The Sun
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Or consider what psychologists call the "pratfall effect": Attractive people, it turns out, become more attractive if they commit a blunder.
In Fiction, Opposites Attract
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Back when you were plotting your online profile, the delete key and edit function bailed you out of blunders before posting to the cyber-nation.
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It's the lives ruined through blunders -- it's the cruelty -- the needless _cruelty_ of it all.
The Visioning
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The Cardiff centre made a huge blunder three years ago when a couple's last viable embryo was placed in the wrong woman.
The Sun
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But he admits that just because he is not screaming claret and blue murder at his blundering players does not mean he is not furious inside.
The Sun
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But it was Smalling whose error threw the United defence off balance and created the opening from which Jurado atoned for his earlier blunder.
Manchester United understudies pull the wool over Pep Guardiola's eyes | Richard Williams
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The American servicemen who dropped a dummy bomb on East Yorkshire have returned to flying after an investigation into the blunder, it was revealed yesterday.
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Had Galen, Celsus, Hippocrates, and the other great scientists of old, known the use of the microscope, they would have made no such grave blunders as in the advocation of the theory that the arteries of the human body contain and carry air during life, instead of oxygenized blood only.
The Arena Volume 4, No. 23, October, 1891
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Such restraint ... Unlike your impulsive blundering leap.
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What did you think, that I'd go blundering into Powys like some green stripling ?
HERE BE DRAGONS
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Sometimes it takes just one small blunder to shred the brittle bonds that hold a social circle together.
Times, Sunday Times
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I should have used a blunderbuss not a derringer.
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Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle, old age a regret.
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I fear lest we commit an inexcusable blunder.
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But as for the longer novel, in a blind and blundering way, constantly trapped and hindered by his want of genius and his want of taste, by his literary ill-breeding and other faults, he seems to have more of a "glimmering" of the real business than they have, or than any other Frenchman had before him.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
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But white blundered away a pawn when rooks were exchanged, then had to sack his bishop to stop a passed pawn.
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I've made an awful blunder.
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White's next is a horrible blunder caused by time pressure.
Times, Sunday Times
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The blunder follows another problem of a biology exam paper that contained such bad diagrams that pupils were pressed to understand what they were supposed to answer.
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In addition to the fine furniture, pictures, silver and glass that one might expect, there are also fans, duelling pistols and blunderbusses, a tiger skin rug, a butcher's block, a spinning wheel, a Dun Emer carpet and sporting equipment.
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The muddle, fuddle, blunder and guddle that followed has only helped turn devolution into a source of national embarrassment.
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Of course the utilitarians have laid the foundations of such a science, with the result that the nicknamer of genius called this branch of science "pig philosophy," making just the same blunder as when he called political economy "dismal science.
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3
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The blunder comes after the Co-operative Group has suffered a torrid couple of years.
The Sun
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The opening was a messy affair, but I imagine Piket was doing alright until he blundered an exchange in the early middlegame.
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i 'the name o' fortin 'hasto bin blunderin' and doin 'again?
Th' Barrel Organ
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A myth has grown up that he blundered into his discovery and did not realise the true potential of penicillin, leaving others to exploit it.
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Why do you blunder about and play the fool?
THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
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Rather than simply have people discuss or debate the latest political spat with no resolution, we check the facts, assess the accusations and by the end of the segment we declare a loser -- the candidate who, on that day, is "guiltier" of more misstatements, cheap shots, and blunders.
Dan Abrams: Introducing...Verdict
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You will find nothing but blunder and embarrassment result from any endeavour to enter into further particulars, such as "the relation of the dissepiment with respect to the valves of the capsule," etc., etc., since "in the various species of Veronica almost every kind of dehiscence may be observed" (C. under V. perfoliata, 1936, an
Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers
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However, the manifold blunders and petty jealousies of this official are now producing such grievous results that his downfall is almost certain, and if his removal in disgrace from a position which he has proved himself totally unfit for be considered a satisfaction to those he has injured, why then I, among others, am morally assured of that amount of vengeance, at least.
The Civil War In America
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Some of your Democratic colleagues are insisting, at this point, that you blundered on both votes.
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A source said: 'It was an unforgivable blunder.
The Sun
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Sending someone to spy on him at work was probably that blundering dunderhead's idea.
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To blunder on the wrong _wharé_ would only serve to arouse the _kainga_.
Adventures in Many Lands
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As if that wasn't enough already, some hick agricultural god called Attis blundered his way from Asia Minor into our seasonal holidays.
Clay Farris Naff: Keep Saturn in Saturnalia!
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They were leading until a blunder on their fourth dive sends the pair out of the medals.
The Sun
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With no elaborate courtship ritual, males in a frenzied pursuit of sexual congress often blunder into and puncture the bodies of other males, occasionally inflicting fatal wounds.
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A rushed move by the blundering board designed to keep any growing doubters quiet.
The Sun
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One popular blunder that almost every economist denounces is rent control.
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Roh himself had suffered troubles on many occasions due to his aides' blunders.
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Hanswurst was a fat glutton of the fifteenth century who aimed to be clever but made blunders.
Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals
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Back at home, he is exposed to an endless parade of eccentric guests and blundering workers.
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They pressed ahead, blundering into the woods through the darkening maze of trees and shrubs.
Christianity Today
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Soon the entire situation spirals out of control into a tragicomic mess of blunders, language barriers, bureaucratic snafus, and spin control.
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Read about more interview blunders and share your interview stories on our blog at timesonline.
Times, Sunday Times
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Many consider it a monumental blunder that Apple waited until 1994 to license its operating system.
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Now the council has admitted its blunder and offered him a full refund.
The Sun
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He makes one blunder after another, like trading his Mercedes for a junker and getting a consultation for liposuction.
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Like lions on the savannah and tigers in the jungle, compared to them, humans are huge, brutish, stupid things, blundering about life in the most destructive way possible.
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He might have added avoiding blunders to the list.
Times, Sunday Times
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A major Yahoo Inc. shareholder said Microsoft Corp. "blundered" last weekend by threatening a hostile Yahoo takeover at a lower price.
Legg Mason Wades Into the Yahoo Fray
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Social Blunders, which follows the romantic misadventures of 33-year-old Sam Callahan, is a darkly comic romp through heartache.
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Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a ret.
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I was amazed one day when a footman, who had committed some _bevue_ or blunder, or apprehended something, actually turned pale and stammered with terror when Lord
Memoirs
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It is a good workman that never blunders. (918).
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If a mosquito blunders into one, it sizzles and makes a sparkle of flame; if you touch the wires yourself by mistake, you get a shock.
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Here we chart some of the biggest bureaucratic blunders of modern times.
Times, Sunday Times
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So concerned was she to kill the thing she blundered and her blade slipped.
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1Thought housing is exploited (7) 5Blunder in telecopy about college fathers (4,3) 9Low quality explosives put into oceans (9) 10Former spouses catching
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVIII No 4
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When the crime came at last, it was as blundering as it was bloody; at once premeditated and accidental; the isolated execution of an interregal conspiracy, existing for half a generation, yet exploding without concert; a wholesale massacre, but a piecemeal plot.
PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete
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Last night he was too embarrassed to talk about his blunder.
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When she stopped, the logistics firm manager was blind to her blunder and blamed her satnav.
The Sun
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And I would depicture her, a foiled and wistful little wraith, very lonely in eternity, and a bit regretful of the world she loved and of its blundering men, and unhappy, -- for she could never be entirely happy without Peter, -- and I feared, indignant.
The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking
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The fear that the whole enterprise was at risk from the blunders of some one outside the charmed circle.
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A lazy human blunder rendered a colossal scientific effort in vain.
Times, Sunday Times
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She opened her mouth to say something but I blundered on, ‘I never thought I'd be able to be so happy.’
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They were all brave men at Lepanto on this memorable October day; but few there were like the corsair king, in whom a heart of fire was kept in check by a brain of ice, who, during the whole combat, never gave away a chance, or failed to swoop like an eagle from his eyry when the blunders of his enemy gave him the opportunity for which he watched.
Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean
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That was a monumental blunder.
Times, Sunday Times
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Our blundering political system is pachydermic in its irresponsiveness.
A Preface to Politics
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I saw that I had been guilty of a careless blunder.
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The bad men, said he, the weak and worthless, blunder into danger and burn their feet, but the good men, they who have any character, they who have that within them which can reflect credit on their alma mater, they come through scatheless.
Barchester Towers
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In pitting against himself those who had so powerfully succoured him in his misfortune, Condé ought at least to have drawn closer to the Court and had a serious understanding with the Queen; but he tergiversated, and at the end of some months of that wavering policy, he found himself standing unmasked between the Court and the Fronde, both equally discontented with him, repeating and exaggerating the blunder committed by Mazarin.
Political Women (Vol. 1 of 2)
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Still, when all around were dining on quails' eggs, Orwell was roughing it in the kitchens of swanky hotels, dossing down in flea pits and blundering in the Spanish Civil war.
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It is a good workman that never blunders. (918).
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Such an unfocussed and scatter-gun assault is already pressing sympathetic buttons, and profiting from the usual heavy-footed public relations blundering of the municipal authorities, and the straight-man impressionability of patronizing editorialists.
Conrad Black: My Manifesto For the Occupy Movement
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Here we chart some of the biggest bureaucratic blunders of modern times.
Times, Sunday Times
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It proved to be a catastrophic tactical blunder.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Obviously a government can be punished for its blunders at a general election.
Times, Sunday Times
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He blundered about in the dark, feeling for the light switch.
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‘Without the incredible help of the Macmillan nurses, who sorted everything out for us from wheelchairs and a chairlift to emotional support, I would have just blundered along on my own,’ he said.
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Although blunderers aren't condemned for their blundering, and criminals aren't arraigned for their crimes, the evidence which might have condemned them is diligently recorded.
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This blunder must date from the second century, for 'iterum' is met with in the Old Latin as well as in the Vulgate, the Gothic, the Bohairic, and some other versions.
The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels
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To fire the blunderbuss use the large teardrop-shaped flame template to represent the spread of shot from the gun's barrel.
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For all his expertise, Mr Magee committed a blunder which the British Crown described at his trial as so elementary as ‘to shame any second-rate burglar’.
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With no elaborate courtship ritual, males in a frenzied pursuit of sexual congress often blunder into and puncture the bodies of other males, occasionally inflicting fatal wounds.
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But he admits that just because he is not screaming claret and blue murder at his blundering players does not mean he is not furious inside.
The Sun
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Most of the billing blunders are the result of technology failures or human error, rather than anything more sinister.
Times, Sunday Times
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Alan Hansen's Match of the Day blunder in racism row Alan Hansen is forced to make a grovelling apology after using the word "coloured" as he debated racism in football on Match Of The Day Spurs fans also on trial at White Hart Lane John Terry's criminal charge is a long way from reaching judgement but that won't stop wags in the terraces from pronouncing their own...
Evening Standard - Home
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When Mrs. Radcliffe, at the date definitely given of 1584, talks about "the Parisian opera," represents a French girl of the sixteenth century as being "instructed in the English poets," and talks about driving in a "landau," the individual blunders are, perhaps, not more violent than those of the chronology by which Scott's Ulrica is apparently a girl at the time of the Conquest and a woman, not too old to be the object of rivalry between Front de Boeuf and his father, not long before the reign of Richard I.
The English Novel
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He was called "Isaac the blunderer" for his troubles.
Augustine on Creation
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The Coalition has made blunders as hospitals strain to cope with soaring demand and dwindling resources.
The Sun
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Khalifah is a Fallah-grazioso of normal assurance shrewd withal; he blunders like an Irishman of the last generation and he uses the first epithet that comes to his tongue.
Arabian nights. English
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Swiftly, conscious of only one motive -- refusal to see this man called craven by his enemies -- she rose, and with blundering fingers buckled the belt round his waist where it belonged.
Riders of the Purple Sage
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The Prime Minister's official spokesman said officials had been ‘quite open’ in admitting their blunder.
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Victims of the blunders usually have their buildings and contents insurance cancelled and often struggle to renew cover at a reasonable price.
Times, Sunday Times
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When she stopped, the logistics firm manager was blind to her blunder and blamed her satnav.
The Sun
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On the other hand, there are too many lapses on the Government's part, if not deliberate mistakes, glaring errors and wanton blunders.
