screwed up
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The klan was a handful of misfits who screwed up everything they tried to do.
From Slate ● Aug. 22, 2026
“That’s where they screwed up, they started subsidizing a lot of these guys clear back in the Dust Bowl,” Mike said of the biggest ranches.
From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2025
Whenever a crisis broke and it was clear that someone had screwed up, the maxim by which the BBC’s leaders operated was “deputy heads will roll!”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025
In other words: “We screwed up, but we can screw up better.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2025
I didn’t like the way my voice was trembling, and I hated saying the words at all; it felt like admitting I had really screwed up.
From "Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer" by Kelly Jones
When I read the CrossFit Kids Training Guide, I felt desperate to find red flags, something I could point at to definitively explain my screwed-up relationship with my body.
From Slate ● Feb. 11, 2023
“Apparently I was ready to confront the dreadfulness called me, and I prevailed. I never turned back. Every day I worked on some part of my screwed-up life until the anxiety dropped away,” she wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2022
Emulating his patented fadeaway with a screwed-up ball of paper tossed into a rubbish bin while exclaiming 'Kobe!' was the closest I ever got.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2021
It's an ugly little sideline often crudely taken up by the most screwed-up members of the family.
From Salon ● Dec. 14, 2020
She offered a bottle of wine, stoppered with a screwed-up rag.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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