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McLaughlin also helped to botch ICE’s efforts to keep immigration activist Jeanette Vizguerra-Ramirez locked up without bond.

From Slate ● Feb. 18, 2026

After deciding on Hutchins, Souza said he told the film’s producers and production managers to hire her: “Please don’t botch the deal because she’s really great.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2024

He’ll botch a gig over his annoyance at not being allowed to call a stranger by a pet name she reserves for her closest friend.

From Salon ● Feb. 9, 2024

The botch required the rescoring of 300,000 exams, scholastic victims of the knotty coin rotation paradox.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 20, 2023

How to capture that profile in wood, preserve her grace and strength—he didn’t trust himself not to botch it.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

The infinite variables in sports can quickly make many of the bets they are holding nearly worthless, whether it is because a player is severely injured or a team botches a crucial touchdown.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 9, 2026

In China, Xinhua news agency's website ran an article with the headline: "British Navy botches test: Missile crashes into the sea with a 'thud', nuclear submarine hovering underwater".

From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2024

That may make it easier to get correct answers, but also can make the stakes higher if the AI goofs and makes a user uncomfortable or botches financial data.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2023

In the afternoon, as camaraderie developed over botches and breakthroughs, we alternated between rolling and raising our wheat dough and, every 30 minutes, stretching and folding the sourdough, which gradually went from sticky to shapely.

From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2023

An' how ye gat him i' your thrall, Au' brak him out o' house an' hall, While scabs an' botches did him gall,                Wi' bitter claw, And lows'd his ill-tongu'd, wicked scawl,                Was warst ava?

From The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe by James Parton

In 2022, more than a third of executions in the US were botched or highly problematic, the organisation said.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

The board began exploring succession options after a botched rebranding campaign caused the company’s valuation to plunge, and an activist campaign targeted board directors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

He issued a no-bid contract to a company that botched the renovation, according to staunch Trump loyalist Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C.

From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2026

Pirro’s office said a botched renovation of the pool was responsible for problems at one of President Trump’s pet projects in the nation’s capital.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

There is talk of a botched investigation, suggestions that a change in personnel may be required.

From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins

“Governments in developing economies are botching the job far too often, but not because industrial policy itself is the wrong choice,” wrote Gill.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026

Legal experts were stunned at what they said was the prosecution’s botching of the case.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2024

Disney has won a boardroom battle against critics who had accused the media giant of botching its streaming strategy and losing its creative spark.

From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2024

Are they going to blow this in a way that causes SBF to later blame them for botching his case?

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2023

“I’m sorry. I’m botching this. I'm not used to really talking, just on the Net. Look, I trust you, but I’m not the only one involved. So let’s wait, okay?”

From "Among the Hidden" by Margaret Peterson Haddix