bungle
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Olympic bosses, who never met an issue they couldn’t bungle, fretted about precedent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 15, 2026
Add the examples from psychology and the bungle we're making of the Earth we "manage," and humans don't have good evidence to put ourselves at the top of some kind of evolutionary hierarchy after all.
From Salon ● May 29, 2025
I worried that it’d be complicated or that a service issue would bungle the beginning of our trip to the happiest place on Earth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2023
A confirmed bungle could call into question EPO test results dating back decades, Dr Ordway tells the BBC.
From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2023
What worried her most was not so much putting the powder into Dragon’s bowl, but the fear that at the last minute she might lose her nerve and bungle it somehow.
From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien
Just think of the rows and bungles of the last seven weeks.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2025
Charlotte and George marry, then George immediately bungles their budding marital bliss.
From Salon ● May 6, 2023
But if those were my worst bungles in 12 months, I’ll settle for them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 1, 2023
He said whatever bungles did occur happened at the management level, with whoever thought it a good idea to deploy mounted agents to block routes to the camp.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 19, 2022
Some moral principles are excellent; but others are really bungles, and require periodical prison culture.
From 'That Very Mab' by May Kendall
Neff led a bungled election integrity case at the L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2026
On the hard-news side, she bungled big moments like an interview with Vladimir Putin, who batted away her questions about 2016 election meddling with an exasperated performance of ignorance.
From Slate ● May 6, 2026
Her claims have triggered demonstrations, promises to tighten the law and criticism that Chancellor Friedrich Merz has bungled his response.
From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2026
After another bungled team performance from McLaren, Max Verstappen is now within reach of what seemed to be an improbable fifth consecutive drivers' world championship.
From Barron's ● Dec. 1, 2025
As we shall see in chapter 6, many spurious rules, including some that have made national headlines, are the result of bungled analyses of grammatical categories like adjective, subordinator, and preposition.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
All of this might be chalked up to bureaucratic bungling, if not for suspicious details.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
Bernthal, who plays Sonny, has his own wayward machismo and hapless sensitivity, the very qualities that made Al Pacino unforgettable in the role of the bungling bandit with a Catholic conscience.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2026
The Lions completed a historic comeback, with a little help from a bungling David Campese.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2025
Funneled into the framework of a prom slasher, the bungling of "Fear Street: Prom Queen" feels downright pernicious.
From Salon ● May 24, 2025
Somewhere in the woods, there’s a cacophony of yips—the runts most likely bungling the squirrel hunt.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
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