screwing

Example Sentences

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And finally, the courts confirmed what we all knew: Live Nation and its subsidiary Ticketmaster are screwing everyone over.

From Slate • Apr. 18, 2026

Ranking Member Cory Booker, a Democrat from New Jersey, said in his opening remarks, “I believe that we are now seeing consolidation that is screwing Americans.”

From MarketWatch • Feb. 12, 2026

Warming to his theme, he feared the party was retreating to the comfort of its traditional vote-losing ways: "Classic Labour. A year into government and we're already screwing it up."

From BBC • Jun. 25, 2025

“These companies at some point decide that it’s really expensive to care a lot more about security when there really aren’t a lot of consequences for screwing it up,” Krebs told me.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 17, 2024

Whatever my accomplishments in the rest of my life, in the low-wage work world I was a person of average ability—capable of learning the job and also capable of screwing up.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich