mess up

Example Sentences

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"What Alan Garten did here is a pretty significant mess-up and again, as you just appropriately stated, it corroborates everything that I said."

From Salon • Jul. 3, 2023

The prime minister has accepted he made a mistake but this mess-up is likely to stick with him.

From BBC • Jan. 21, 2023

Nick Faldo has a pretty eye-opening mess-up right off the bat on the telecast.

From Golf Digest • Apr. 10, 2020

But I’m hoping to be surprised this year — just not in the same way as last year’s mess-up.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 1, 2018

The man I knew chucked up his business and left his home and risked his life because everybody was doing it, because it seemed there was a real mess-up, because one had to.

From Nonsenseorship by Putnam, G. G.