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drop the ball
verb as in blunder
verb as in bungle
verb as in err
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in falter
verb as in flounder
Strong matches
verb as in miscalculate
verb as in misestimate
verb as in misjudge
Strong matches
verb as in misreckon
verb as in miss
verb as in muff
Example Sentences
Moments later at the other end, Marshall dropped the ball as he dived for the corner - but once Wigan did score then a flurry of points followed either side of half-time.
Hull KR winger Burgess, who had dropped the ball in a similar position moments before, opened the scoring after 17 minutes when he dived in at the corner following good work from Lewis.
“That wasn’t the case. It wasn’t, ‘Hey, we dropped the ball, we were late,’” he said.
Even in the drizzle of a rainy day, the quarterback was dropping the ball right into the hands of his receivers.
However, the PR people who worked for Baldoni and his studio "dropped the ball a little bit" by discussing tactics in texts, he told BBC News.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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