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Examples of flub in a Sentence
Verb
The ball went right to him but he flubbed the catch.
The actress flubbed several lines.
Noun
when she was told her information was wrong, she apologized for the flub and immediately corrected it
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Sumit Ganguly, Foreign Affairs, 20 June 2023
In New York, Luciano airmailed a throw in the first inning Friday night and flubbed another late-inning double play ball.
—Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 26 May 2024
Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 11 June 2024
The flub is hitting Tier 2 members of the Policemen’s Annuity and Benefit Fund of Chicago, those who started working for the CPD on or after Jan. 1, 2011.
—Jeremy Gorner, Chicago Tribune, 10 June 2024
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Verb
Washington has also flubbed more routine diplomatic issues such as visa processing, with record backlogs in U.S. consulates in India that only recently ebbed.
—Sumit Ganguly, Foreign Affairs, 20 June 2023
In New York, Luciano airmailed a throw in the first inning Friday night and flubbed another late-inning double play ball.
—Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 26 May 2024
Noun
But these early flubs, which Google chalked up to misinterpretations or a lack of data, have so far overshadowed another possible drawback: the financial and environmental cost of AI search.
—Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 11 June 2024
The flub is hitting Tier 2 members of the Policemen’s Annuity and Benefit Fund of Chicago, those who started working for the CPD on or after Jan. 1, 2011.
—Jeremy Gorner, Chicago Tribune, 10 June 2024
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“Flub.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flub. Accessed 17 Jun. 2024.
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