blundered

past tense of blunder

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for blundered
Verb
  • Onana then fumbled a low cross from the right by Yasin Ayari, with the ball falling to the feet of Georginio Rutter.
    Laurie Whitwell, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Last season, Daniels fumbled the ball twice in the last five minutes.
    Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • But even on a night where Minnesota’s Anthony Edwards scored 31, no one was better than Dončić, who only stumbled when the Lakers tried to get him to 50 points.
    Dan Woike, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Abdi stumbled, and only kept himself upright by leaning with both hands on his cane.
    David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • On Canal Street on Thursday morning, lost tourists tripped over commuters hustling out of the subway, the grates on the souvenir stores went up, but most of the street vendors were still missing.
    Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Prodded by a fan question about bloopers while reading a story on air, asked by Bravo host Andy Cohen, Daly recalled how working with a teleprompter and a big name like Leonardo DiCaprio tripped him up.
    Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Her sister struggled for years with substance use, leading their mother to assume custody of her sister's two children.
    Victoria Moorwood, Cincinnati Enquirer, 26 Oct. 2025
  • After an effort to create a Falls of the Ohio national park fell short in 1967, Kentucky and Indiana officials struggled to stop the falls from becoming a garbage dump.
    Leo Bertucci, Louisville Courier Journal, 25 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The Franklin Park Defenders argue in their appeal brief that the court erred in ruling against their claim, in determining there was no Article 97 violation.
    Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 15 Oct. 2025
  • White’s legal team challenged it, and in late 2022 an appeals court ruled that the judge had erred in not letting White withdraw his guilty plea.
    Eren Orbey, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
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“Blundered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blundered. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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