screwed up
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The Flynns are screwed up but they don’t mean to be cruel; like Harper, they side with “other outcasts and outsiders.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026
If that happens and Congress later says, Wait, we screwed up, start it up again—it’s too late, because the spacecraft is no longer able to be contacted.
From Slate ● Dec. 9, 2025
“That’s where they screwed up, they started subsidizing a lot of these guys clear back in the Dust Bowl,” Mike said of the biggest ranches.
From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2025
“They screwed up, it was a bad day for them; they didn’t follow protocol and they should have. ... Other than that, they’re great. ...Let’s hope that they’ve learned.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2025
“I screwed up my first date. Go me.”
From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
And that's the screwed-up system we have, right?
From Salon ● Feb. 15, 2024
When I read the CrossFit Kids Training Guide, I felt desperate to find red flags, something I could point at to definitively explain my screwed-up relationship with my body.
From Slate ● Feb. 11, 2023
“Apparently I was ready to confront the dreadfulness called me, and I prevailed. I never turned back. Every day I worked on some part of my screwed-up life until the anxiety dropped away,” she wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2022
“It’s a screwed-up situation,” she said, standing outside her shop, limestone dust in her hair and down her fleece.
From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2022
I doubt trees are ever told to “be the screwed-up ninth-grader.”
From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson
