messy
Example Sentences
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The details of shootings are messy—no surprise in such a highly charged and confused environment.
Of all the fronts in the AI wars—funding, electricity, chips—the messiest is the fight for human capital.
Playing a character who goes off the rails was cathartic for Turner, who shot the series in 2024 shortly after moving back to England following her messy divorce from pop star Joe Jonas.
From Los Angeles Times
Further, there was no guarantee that military action would bring down the regime or avoid messy long-term entanglements.
“I think I’ll always write mother-daughter dynamics, and really any family dynamics, in a complicated, messy way. I’ve tried to write other kinds of dynamics, and my body will freeze up,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times
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