botch

Example Sentences

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“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

Too late, I realized my misstep—Anna May had wanted to use my arrival as an excuse to end the interview, and I’d botched that for her.

From Literature

Come April 15, it’s hard to hide losses from stock sales or other botched investment schemes.

From MarketWatch

Treebaun progressed quickly through each student’s recap and repercussion track, and I watched a botched Kennedy assassination simulation, a Watergate mess, and a rather iffy situation involving Ben Franklin, but none of them were Elliot’s.

From Literature

When Salmond died, aged 69, he had been suing the Scottish government over a botched investigation into harassment complaints made about him.

From BBC