muff
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Meanwhile, the strength of a brand like “60 Minutes” is its ability to plow through heavy seas emanating from corporate politics—that is, unless overly entitled employees muff it up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
Amen Ogbongbemiga recovered the muff to give the Chargers their excellent starting position.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2023
McCarthy to wreak a muff and a busted play, it had come to sort of figure.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 31, 2022
In 1914, the suffragist Mary Richardson walked into the National Gallery with a hatchet concealed in her muff, then slashed a Velázquez nude in protest against the imprisonment of Emmeline Pankhurst.
From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2022
Billy closed it, took a hand from his muff, touched a stove.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
The Venezuelan leader had on what appeared to be noise-canceling ear muffs and grey Nike-branded sweatpants and jacket.
From Barron's ● Jan. 3, 2026
But when, against all odds, he seemingly achieves his goal, he muffs it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025
LSU was fortunate that the Seminoles squandered both of his muffs.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 4, 2022
She held her 7-year-old daughter, Brielle, who sported pink ear muffs with a unicorn horn.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 1, 2020
He only had white hair on the sides of his head, almost like he was wearing ear muffs made of pure cotton.
From "The Boy in the Black Suit" by Jason Reynolds
In that game, Reeder recovered a muffed punt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2026
He proceeded to hit into his fifth out… except Kerkering muffed the grounder.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2025
It will come as little surprise that the goalies in the crease, drawing on years of experience and wearing the right gear for the task, easily turned aside nearly all of the muffed penalty shots.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 21, 2024
Andre Drummond had 11 points, 17 rebounds and muffed a dunk to the delight of the home crowd when he was stuffed by the front of the rim.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 2, 2024
My mouth is dry, hands hard against my muffed ears.
From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari
To that point, his signature moment in October might have been muffing a routine fly ball in the decisive Game 5 of the World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers last fall.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025
He also has made a few costly mistakes in the process, such as muffing a punt against Wisconsin and dropping a key third-down pass against Minnesota.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2024
TCU: Derius Davis had two fumbles in the first half, the receiver mishandling the back end of a double handoff and later muffing a punt inside the 10.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 2, 2021
“It’s tough to gain the trust of the coaches when you keep going out there and keep muffing punts and doing things like that,” he said.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 7, 2016
"Hold!" said I in Spanish, through the muffing folds of my hood.
From Martin Conisby's Vengeance by Jeffery Farnol
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