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half-baked

[haf-beykt, hahf-] / ˈhæfˈbeɪkt, ˈhɑf- /


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Or they resort to fanciful or half-baked plans if they get sick.

From MarketWatch Jun. 15, 2026

Meta’s Quest headsets were still clunky, and the software looked half-baked.

From Barron's Jan. 16, 2026

And judging by its half-baked proposals, BP has either forgotten the lessons of what it termed a “catastrophe” or decided that catastrophe is an acceptable risk.

From Slate Jan. 14, 2026

Critics were given seven episodes to preview out of the first season’s nine installments, enough to confirm that any emerging theories about its meaning can only be half-baked.

From Salon Nov. 26, 2025

His punishment is the Word, and his deficiencies are failures of words—as when he grows impatient with translation and strikes out precariously on his own, telling parables in his wildly half-baked Kikongo.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver




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