screw up

Folding clothes is an repetitive task that doesn’t depend on sensory feedback, and if the robot screws up the process, no one is likely to be injured or killed.

Or maybe our stubborn myopia is what this Superman means when he says, “I screw up all the time but that is being human.”

Forget throwing soup on the “Mona Lisa” — the Bezos wedding protesters might do something truly offensive: They are threatening to screw up traffic on the big day.

Newsom became the face of this error, because he can't help but screw up with the same drama he brings to everything else.

Mary already has the foundational skills for library work when she barks at Derrick not to screw up the “order” of her designer denim on a rack, she just doesn’t know it yet.