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as in mistakes
a wrong judgment
another misstep like that, and the company could go belly-up
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as in blunders
an unintentional departure from truth or accuracy
a misstep that could lead to disaster
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Recent Examples of missteps
Byard studies a smartphone showing his year-old wishes for a new coach, those expressed to a reporter late last season, including disappointment that far too many missteps had been improperly dealt with.
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Dan Wiederer, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2026
The chief’s comments, on the eve of the first anniversary of the Palisades fire, were the strongest admission yet of missteps by department leaders.
—Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2026
Similarly, Schoen was expected to be in the hot seat at the end of the regular season after several notable missteps during his tenure.
—Paulina Dedaj, FOXNews.com, 5 Jan. 2026
When enterprises rely on devs to build passkeys in-house, any gaps or missteps that occur during the process can surface as user friction later on.
—Fortune, 3 Jan. 2026
To avoid some of the same missteps in achieving those goals, Kate Byrne, a financial wellness expert with Vanguard, offers up advice in this In Your Corner Podcast episode.
—Joshua Sidorowicz, CBS News, 2 Jan. 2026
With realistic plans and a willingness to learn from missteps, small changes can add up to long-term financial stability.
—Sonia Osorio, Miami Herald, 31 Dec. 2025
The willingness to discuss failure and missteps—not as cautionary tales, but as evidence of survival—ran throughout the event.
—Dana Harris-Bridson, IndieWire, 11 Nov. 2025
While many key figures—including Bush and then-Secretary of State Colin Powell—later expressed regret over the absence of WMDs and policy missteps, Cheney famously defended the invasion and the narrative around it in the following years.
—Tom O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for missteps
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In Slow Horses — an adaptation of author Mick Herron's award-winning Slough House series — Oldman, 67, portrays Jackson Lamb, the leader of a dysfunctional team of MI5 agents whose career-ending mistakes landed them an unwanted spot at Slough House.—
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This game was a defensive battle on both sides, as Hurts and Purdy had their fair share of mistakes, though the latter’s showed up in the box score.—
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Williamson County based Ramsey Solutions has also come up with an effective guide to avoid any regifting blunders.—
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There are worse things than watching Black, Rudd, and Zahn play three gormless morons on a mid-life misadventure, but almost every scene and setpiece is constructed with a haphazardness that blunders away their charm.—
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In other words, some of those 110-year-olds might just be clerical errors.—
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After months of harping on these errors in film study and practices, Kerr finally went to an unconventional method to inspire change.—
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“Missteps.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/missteps. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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