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an unintentional departure from truth or accuracy
- a newsreader who memorably dropped a clanger when she referred to Robert Burns as an English poet
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“Clanger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clanger. Accessed 17 Aug. 2022.
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The first known use of clanger was in 1948
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