bungle
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Olympic bosses, who never met an issue they couldn’t bungle, fretted about precedent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 15, 2026
And while it’s disappointing that such a formidable industry figure could bungle a major career pivot, at least she’ll never have to go back to parking cars.
From Salon ● Jan. 1, 2026
Do we have it in our power to choose comedy over catastrophe and thereby give ourselves another day to bungle along?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2023
A confirmed bungle could call into question EPO test results dating back decades, Dr Ordway tells the BBC.
From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2023
The dog passed the sheep and reached Nyame first—only to bungle the message.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
Its title comes from a Delhi University slang: to "give it those ones" is to perform one's usual act - bungles included.
From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2026
The committee said some prominent bungles included flagging Sen. Edward M. Kennedy and Rep. John Lewis for airport scrutiny because their identities mistakenly triggered the watchlist.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 19, 2023
Charlotte and George marry, then George immediately bungles their budding marital bliss.
From Salon ● May 6, 2023
She cheerfully charts her errors in judgment, her bungles, her myopia.
From New York Times ● Aug. 18, 2020
Colonel Bellairs always bungled into business matters of the simplest nature as a bumble bee bungles into a spider's web.
From Prisoners Fast Bound In Misery And Iron by Mary Cholmondeley
Neff led a bungled election integrity case at the L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2026
On the hard-news side, she bungled big moments like an interview with Vladimir Putin, who batted away her questions about 2016 election meddling with an exasperated performance of ignorance.
From Slate ● May 6, 2026
Her claims have triggered demonstrations, promises to tighten the law and criticism that Chancellor Friedrich Merz has bungled his response.
From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2026
South Korea's former president Yoon Suk Yeol capped a remarkable fall from grace on Thursday when he was sentenced to life imprisonment over his bungled efforts to impose military rule.
From Barron's ● Feb. 19, 2026
As we shall see in chapter 6, many spurious rules, including some that have made national headlines, are the result of bungled analyses of grammatical categories like adjective, subordinator, and preposition.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
All of this might be chalked up to bureaucratic bungling, if not for suspicious details.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
His true, bungling nature—something that’ll likely be on display as a gubernatorial candidate—shines through in the smaller moments.
From Slate ● Dec. 11, 2025
The Lions completed a historic comeback, with a little help from a bungling David Campese.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2025
Funneled into the framework of a prom slasher, the bungling of "Fear Street: Prom Queen" feels downright pernicious.
From Salon ● May 24, 2025
Somewhere in the woods, there’s a cacophony of yips—the runts most likely bungling the squirrel hunt.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
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