Sentence examples for a simple blunder from inspiring English sources

He encouraged Deep Blue to sacrifice a knight, resulting in a position that left his own king exposed, and many chess experts wondered if he hadn't made a simple blunder.

So the incontinent agent who fails to draw the AO conclusion which corresponds to his ATC conclusion, and to perform the corresponding action, is not committing "a simple logical blunder" (p. 40).

It seemed he was right when Fischer lost game one by the simple blunder while the television camera dispute forfeited the second.

[C7.] SIMPLE BLUNDER Traders at Credit Suisse probably used dated prices to value asset-backed securities, leading to the surprise $2.85 billion write-down at the Swiss bank.

There are hints that covered traps may collect fewer insects than simple blunder traps.

The largest number (83) of these were used at Kenilworth Castle where the overall catch rate was lower (p < 0.07, Mann–Whitney U test) in PFTs, 0.65 compared with 2.49 for the 276 simple blunder traps.

Through extensive interviews with key Czech figures, it emerges as a complex Central European tale of political infighting among Czech leaders and feuding between rival intelligence services, topped off by a series of simple blunders and overheated statements that inadvertently fueled an American debate involving war and peace.

Households are already facing sky-high energy bills and simply can't afford simple blunders.

One possibility is simple blundering; another is that it was intentional, to make sure the trials of the Central Park Five were not distracted by a different suspect.

All too often breaches are caused by simple blunders, such as failing to separate systems containing sensitive data from those that do not need access to them.

The Duke blunder was a simple, silly mistake — the confusing of two shades of blue in a split-second shot.