mismanage

Deirdre said the reason people are going to food banks is "not because we mismanage money. It's not because we can't budget. It's because there isn't enough to budget."

From BBC ● May 24, 2025

“We didn’t have any money to mismanage, because we didn’t have any money,” Spence said of the JFK8 campaign.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 14, 2022

I didn’t understand how people with enough money could so easily mismanage it or make monumentally bad financial decisions.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 30, 2022

As he approaches a likely third term in power that would start next year, it could be politically damaging if his government were to mismanage Evergrande.

From New York Times ● Sep. 26, 2021

On December 17, 1824, Canning wrote: "Spanish America is free; and if we do not mismanage our matters sadly, she is English, and novus saeclorum nascitur ordo."

From Rise of the New West, 1819-1829 by Frederick Jackson Turner

Reporting from The New York Times has highlighted the way that the jail complex mismanages the stationing of its nearly 8,000 uniformed staff members, with some rarely interacting with detainees at all.

From New York Times ● May 9, 2022

Wired’s investigation is a deep dive that demonstrates how your data can be at risk if a massive company mismanages internal access to it or carelessly leaves it open to outsiders.

From The Verge ● Nov. 19, 2021

"It’s not uncommon that a conservator mismanages money and profits off of that," Kaplan said.

From Fox News ● Oct. 1, 2021

There is a man called O'Brien, who mismanages my uncle's affairs.

From Romance by Joseph Conrad

I have been very happy sometimes during the past year; and whatever the blind Fate that mismanages the world may elect to demand in payment, I shall not haggle.

From The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking by James Branch Cabell

For most of the 20th century, the federal government managed, and frequently mismanaged, the energy resources on tribal trust lands.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Germain mismanaged the land campaign against the American rebels.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026

"Prime Minister Anthony Albanese put her in this process. But it has been mismanaged by Sussan Ley."

From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2026

Reached by telephone, Marino declined to comment on the letter or the mismanaged director’s search.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2025

The Osage were also able to retrieve at least a portion of the oil funds mismanaged over decades by the U.S. government.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

The group were were being punished for "mismanaging" the battery exchanges for Spiro motorbikes, which they denied.

From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026

Private-equity firm Roark Capital is mismanaging Driven, ADW Capital said in a letter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026

He has been blamed for mismanaging the bullpen, mucking up the lineup, and failing to put this team in a position to succeed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2023

In a country where at least one in two citizens are in poverty according to multiple measures, Weah faces accusations of mismanaging government funds.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 10, 2023

For weeks before Garfield's death, medical journals and general newspapers had accused Bliss of mismanaging his care.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow