Sentence examples for outright blunder from inspiring English sources

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Use it sparingly, if at all, and be aware that it will probably come off as a joke, if not an outright blunder.

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But after half an hour of near misses and outright blunders, I realized that I was fishing in saltwater's equivalent of a limestone spring creek.

"Beautiful Creatures" is a classic example of the confusions and the outright blunders that can overtake talented people who commit themselves to a concept driven purely by the movie marketplace.

10...f5? (An outright positional blunder, weakening the square e6 and inviting the white cavalry to charge. 10...b6 stops white's intention. It was chosen overwhelmingly by other players, including Kasparov).

But many officials of these companies said Mr. Bush had blundered by rejecting the agreement outright instead of trying to repair it.

The lottery in P.C. operating systems was held way back in the early nineteen-eighties, and Microsoft won it — courtesy of a monumental blunder by Big Blue, which chose to license Microsoft's DOS instead of buying it outright.

A blunder.

His blunder?

What Blunder?

Blunder after blunder undermined its chances.

Labour may blunder.

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