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It is typically used to describe a situation where someone mishandles or makes a mistake, often in a clumsy manner. Example: "He fumbled the ball during the game, allowing the other team to score."
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Fumbled
verb
Past of fumble
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Five minutes later Vaclik was thankful that no Real player was in the vicinity after he fumbled a Ronaldo effort.
At the other side of the room, Poulson had fumbled through the blackness and opened the window.
Presumably, they were just kidding with everyone when Javier Mascherano gave the ball away inside the opening minute and then seconds later fumbled the ball out of play from a misplaced Sergio Busquets pass.
I read one a day and then two a day,then I ran out and fumbled along the library shelves pulling out books at random.
The parallels are striking, suggesting that its rise is about more than just a fumbled election campaign, peculiarly British policy debates or Britain's island mentality.
The answer is through a combination of political expediency, inept tactics and fumbled diplomacy.
His social agenda, especially his no-exception horror of abortions, will play better in South Carolina, but he goes to the Palmetto State stripped of the momentum he gathered in Iowa.New Hampshire also deflated Mr Gingrich, who was polling second in December but fumbled his chance to capitalise on a coveted endorsement from the state's largest local newspaper, the conservative Union Leader.
In winning three successive elections, it pushed the Tories, like a fugitive army, far to the right, where they fumbled for whatever electoral elixir they fancied Mrs Thatcher had possessed.
But for a few horrible weeks at the end of last year, Dubai's parachute refused to open or perhaps the emirate simply fumbled as it reached for the ripcord.In November Dubai threatened to default on a $4.05 billion sukuk, or Islamic bond, issued by Nakheel, a troubled property developer belonging to Dubai World, one of three government-owned conglomerates that set the pace for Dubai's development.
Meanwhile, delays to Airbus's flagship A380 super-jumbo and its slow, fumbled response to Boeing's 787 are denting the credibility of the European enterprise.
WITH tension high after a difficult and partly rigged election, the last thing NATO forces in Afghanistan needed was for scores of Afghan civilians to be killed by yet another fumbled attack.
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