as in mistakes
an unintentional departure from truth or accuracy
she's terrified that she'll make some silly bobble during the important presentation
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as in fumbles
to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way
the first baseman bobbled the catch, so the runner was safe
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Recent Examples of bobbles
Brent Rose,
Outside,
28 Feb. 2026
Some noticeable opening night wobbles and bobbles only served to prove that point.
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Lauren Warnecke,
Chicago Tribune,
20 Feb. 2026
Stewart Mandel,
New York Times,
1 Apr. 2026
Kowalewski bobbles the foul tip to help the righty get the strikeout.
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Zoe Collins Rath,
Austin American Statesman,
27 Mar. 2026
The following week, Travis Kelce bobbles what would have been a go ahead touchdown in the fourth, and the Eagles intercept it.
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Mark Kern,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Oct. 2025
Noun
But the experience includes a few bobbles—call them growing pains.
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Brent Rose,
Outside,
28 Feb. 2026
Some noticeable opening night wobbles and bobbles only served to prove that point.
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Lauren Warnecke,
Chicago Tribune,
20 Feb. 2026
Verb
O’Neill inexplicably bobbles the snap, tries to pick the ball up instead of diving on it and loses it again when he gets walloped.
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Stewart Mandel,
New York Times,
1 Apr. 2026
Kowalewski bobbles the foul tip to help the righty get the strikeout.
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Zoe Collins Rath,
Austin American Statesman,
27 Mar. 2026
The following week, Travis Kelce bobbles what would have been a go ahead touchdown in the fourth, and the Eagles intercept it.
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Mark Kern,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bobbles
Noun
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The team's mistakes cost the players early on when Germany scored in the 2nd minute to earn the lead.
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Sure, a lot of the mistakes or poor moments in defense can be waved away by recognizing that most of the team’s best defenders were sitting on the bench when the Turks wheeled away in delight with Ayhan’s goal.
Verb
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Tensions between the galley and the interior continue to escalate over lunch service, when a radio mishap fumbles the order in which the food should go out.
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The movie fumbles the chance to do something arresting with this seminal period in art.
Verb
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Her head bobs gently, then sharply tilts at specific moments, particularly when certain words cut through the stream of conversation.
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Just after lunchtime on a Saturday in November, a sea of purple braids bobs in unison, barely clearing the tops of the movie-theater seats behind them.
Noun
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Many on social media have posted compilation videos of Dean's errors.
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When the Mets got swept this week by the Cubs, making six errors in one of those games along the way, their record was 72-102.
Verb
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More likely Brock Lesnar blows this thing up.
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Cher’s court documents paint a bleak picture of how Allman, 49, allegedly blows through his $120,000 annual trust distributions.
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For Day 5 at Ascot Racecourse, the royal wore the same Eliot Zed pumps from the day before.
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The Griz constantly pumps the rod to get his bait darting forward and then dropping back.
Noun
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Colorado's rally offset a pair of baserunning blunders that ended the eighth.
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Once again, Towns, who hadn’t gotten into foul trouble in what felt like a basketball eternity, pulled off a series of blunders, picking up two fouls in the game’s opening 62 seconds.
Verb
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Huel offers nutritionally complete protein shakes as meal replacements.
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The room shakes, and my mug falls to the ground.
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“Bobbles.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bobbles. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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