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Recent Examples of clanger In its two most recent games, its goalkeeper, André Onana, has made calamitous clangers, leading to easy goals for the opposition. Alex Tabet, NBC News, 15 Dec. 2024 The veined wing of the clanger cicada kills bacteria solely through its physical structure — one of the first natural surfaces found to do so. Trevor Quirk, Scientific American, 5 Mar. 2013 But only new centre back David Luiz has provided clangers in defence in more than one game, losing Ashley Barnes with some schoolboy marking against Burnley before that shirt pull on Mohamed Salah at Anfield. SI.com, 7 Sep. 2019 Another game against Chelsea and another clanger for Lloris - this time during the Lilywhites tenure at Wembley. SI.com, 30 Sep. 2019 This doesn't stop players from slipping every now and again, or dropping a social clanger or two. SI.com, 29 Sep. 2019 This is hardly surprising given the Spaniard's mixed start to life at Anfield, making a clanger while trying to play out from the back which handed Danny Ings a goal in the narrow victory over Southampton. SI.com, 3 Sep. 2019 For years the clanger has dangled in the middle, banging against the bell’s iron walls for two states to hear, back and forth from Indiana to Ohio to Indiana to Ohio … WHERE’S GREGG? Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 3 July 2019 Despite showing solidarity on the pitch, matters were complicated when Bale's agent dropped an inadvertent clanger on local radio, stating the pair didn't get along. SI.com, 1 Apr. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for clanger
Noun
  • Before formally apologizing to her, Phillips tells Danny about how the stringent demands of Dr. Broussard, who visited Maguire in Episode 4, led him to nick a vessel during an outpatient procedure on a 20-year-old man named Julio, and Phillips’ parents then covered up his fatal mistake.
    Max Gao, Variety, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Nuggets Podcast: Russell Westbrook’s Minnesota mistake, the Western pecking order and a confidence game Jalen Pickett got advice from Chris Paul once.
    Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 4 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • After coalescing with ultranationalists to establish the nation's furthest right government in late 2022, the former special forces commando who had already become Israel's longest serving premier largely deflected criticism over the intelligence blunder of October 7, 2023.
    Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Yet, the Trump White House and leading Republicans in Congress have tried mightily to put a positive spin on the colossal blunder, even as Democrats pounced on it.
    Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune, 30 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Baker expressed skepticism about the poll, questioning the reliability due to the small sample size and margin of error.
    Samantha-Jo Roth, The Washington Examiner, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Unlike previous quantum attempts plagued by instability, Majorana 1 uses a new class of qubits resistant to errors, making scalable quantum computing a reality.
    Sarah Choudhary, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025

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“Clanger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clanger. Accessed 10 Apr. 2025.

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