mess with
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That said, you don’t want to go too crazy short either because that can mess with your stability.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
"Let's break a record and send a message that they can't mess with us anymore. We are good people in the Rio Grande Valley," Pulido told the crowd of thousands at Sunday's rally.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026
"This beautiful developmental transition is completely disrupted in Alzheimer's disease by pathological processes that mess with episodic memory and interfere with circuits that allow you to think about your own life, lexicon, and vocabulary."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026
He adds: "It did mess with my head a little bit. It's the most traumatic thing I've ever been through personally."
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
I still want to ask her about dressing up with her other friends, but I don’t want to mess with the good feeling I have about Jace.
From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée
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