botch
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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
No, Philadelphia Phillies’ reliever Orion Kerkering did not just botch a grounder and throw it away with the season on the line!
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2025
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
“We all bite off too much sooner or later. But some students don’t know when to spit their mouthful. They burn out. They quit, or botch their exams. Some crack.”
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
Vocabulary lists containing botch
Awkward Moments
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The Things They Carried
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