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mismanage

[mis-man-ij] / mɪsˈmæn ɪdʒ /


VERB
manage badly
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Deirdre said the reason people are going to food banks is "not because we mismanage money. It's not because we can't budget. It's because there isn't enough to budget."

From BBC ● May 24, 2025

WildEarth Guardians in their complaint blame “a century of unsustainable water uses and mismanage of the Grande” for conditions that barely allow the minnow and other protected species to survive.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 30, 2022

As he approaches a likely third term in power that would start next year, it could be politically damaging if his government were to mismanage Evergrande.

From New York Times ● Sep. 26, 2021

I didn't mismanage our health care system.I didn't invent the housing crisis.

From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2020

It is they who choose the few supreme persons who manage or mismanage the world's affairs.

From Woman and the New Race by Margaret Sanger

Reporting from The New York Times has highlighted the way that the jail complex mismanages the stationing of its nearly 8,000 uniformed staff members, with some rarely interacting with detainees at all.

From New York Times ● May 9, 2022

Wired’s investigation is a deep dive that demonstrates how your data can be at risk if a massive company mismanages internal access to it or carelessly leaves it open to outsiders.

From The Verge ● Nov. 19, 2021

"It’s not uncommon that a conservator mismanages money and profits off of that," Kaplan said.

From Fox News ● Oct. 1, 2021

The man who manages his neighbor's affairs mismanages his own.

From The Sowers by Henry Seton Merriman

There is a man called O'Brien, who mismanages my uncle's affairs.

From Romance by Joseph Conrad

For most of the 20th century, the federal government managed, and frequently mismanaged, the energy resources on tribal trust lands.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Germain mismanaged the land campaign against the American rebels.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026

"Prime Minister Anthony Albanese put her in this process. But it has been mismanaged by Sussan Ley."

From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2026

Reached by telephone, Marino declined to comment on the letter or the mismanaged director’s search.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2025

The Osage were also able to retrieve at least a portion of the oil funds mismanaged over decades by the U.S. government.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

Former workers said development of the game was chaotic and accused its boss, Leslie Benzies, of mismanaging the studio.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

A celebrated government-run health system has been mismanaging medicine for years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

The group were were being punished for "mismanaging" the battery exchanges for Spiro motorbikes, which they denied.

From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026

In his lawsuit, Michél is accusing Hill and MLH of grossly mismanaging the tour, including its setup, marketing, budgeting and payment of tour expenses, and blamed her for the tour’s “dismal” ticket sales.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2024

For weeks before Garfield's death, medical journals and general newspapers had accused Bliss of mismanaging his care.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow




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