half-baked
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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
Ramaphosa's spokesperson Vincent Magwenya said that Judge Madlanga's interim report would not be made public as it was not "helpful to start... debating on something that is half-baked".
From BBC • Dec. 23, 2025
We usually die half-baked, so he finishes the cooking, turning up the heat.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025
Time, as she had done to me for the past eighteen years, will provide them also with the half-baked answers to the surreal life I was about to sever myself from.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
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