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Recent Examples of blooper
Fairbanks then overcame a blooper dropping in to start the ninth to pick up the save.
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Marc Topkin, The Orlando Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2025
The credit sequence features a blooper reel of near-calamities.
—Nick Paumgarten, New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2025
The blooper clip opens with Bailey, 37, goofing off for the camera as a firearm-toting Johansson looks off the side of a boat, a serious expression on her face.
—Jen Juneau, People.com, 5 Aug. 2025
Following Lopez, reliever Elvis Alvarado nearly threw two spotless frames with four strikeouts until a 70 mph blooper to right resulted in a double that took him out of the game.
—Sacbee.com, 13 July 2025
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Marc Topkin, The Orlando Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2025
The credit sequence features a blooper reel of near-calamities.
—Nick Paumgarten, New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2025
The blooper clip opens with Bailey, 37, goofing off for the camera as a firearm-toting Johansson looks off the side of a boat, a serious expression on her face.
—Jen Juneau, People.com, 5 Aug. 2025
Following Lopez, reliever Elvis Alvarado nearly threw two spotless frames with four strikeouts until a 70 mph blooper to right resulted in a double that took him out of the game.
—Sacbee.com, 13 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for blooper
Noun
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Again, Gardner ports a movie type onto the sketch-comedy stage and turns up the volume just enough for the character to seem hilariously damaged, culminating in a Melissa McCarthy–worthy pratfall.—
Jesse Hassenger,
Vulture,
29 Aug. 2025
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The pratfall was, in one producer’s memory, a small eureka moment.—
Ruby Tandoh,
New Yorker,
25 Aug. 2025
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Base running blunder The Tigers had a great chance to put together a big inning in the second, after Trey Sweeney hit a sacrifice fly, knocking in a run.—
Ryan Ford,
Freep.com,
6 Oct. 2025
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That blunder came one series after Slayton had a brutal drop on a 50-yard bomb from Dart that would have put the ball inside the Saints’ 20-yard line.—
Dan Duggan,
New York Times,
6 Oct. 2025
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Howl at the moon, like your new howler, capuchin and spider monkey neighbors!—
Jennifer Leigh Parker,
Forbes.com,
16 July 2025
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On an island off Panama, male capuchins were observed repeatedly abducting baby howlers.—
Rafil Kroll-Zaidi,
Harpers Magazine,
16 July 2025
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Bahr sees this as being connected to policy flubs and misdirection.—
Joan Meiners,
AZCentral.com,
1 Oct. 2025
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Character animations are slick, but reliable in their control and inertia — rarely leading to flubs caused by anything other than player error.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
27 Sep. 2025
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Teoscar Hernández chooses the right time to hustle No one has felt the highs and lows of this series quite like Hernández, whose defensive gaffe in the second inning of Game 1 exacerbated the Dodgers’ early deficit and whose bat lifted them to a 5-3 victory that night.—
Fabian Ardaya,
New York Times,
7 Oct. 2025
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Even diligent Webberheads will need to overlook certain gaffes, like a hero who seems to have tied himself up in a climactic moment and a Stygian lair well marked with glowing Exit signs.—
Vince Aletti,
New Yorker,
3 Oct. 2025
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An early bloomer with double light rose blooms that fade to white.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
5 Oct. 2025
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Today, however, the resistance to planting these heavy bloomers has been overcome much to the benefit of those looking for a tall flowering hedge that is nearly always in bloom.—
Joshua Siskin,
Oc Register,
27 Sep. 2025
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Steelers, Saints, Cardinals Sam Darnold was nearly perfect (28-of-34 passing for 341 yards and four touchdowns), but his one mistake was a costly interception late that set up the Bucs’ winning field goal.—
Chad Graff,
New York Times,
7 Oct. 2025
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Mahomes methodically pushed the offense to Jacksonville’s goal line before making what was a game-changing mistake.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
7 Oct. 2025
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After Ronny Mauricio’s ninth-inning homer got the Mets back even, another fielding miscue by a pitcher, this a throwing error on Gregory Soto, set up Elías Díaz’s walk-off single.—
Will Sammon,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
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The team simply could not keep pace with the Eagles, and miscues led to the loss.—
James Brizuela,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Sep. 2025
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“Blooper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blooper. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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