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McLaughlin also helped to botch ICE’s efforts to keep immigration activist Jeanette Vizguerra-Ramirez locked up without bond.

From Slate ● Feb. 18, 2026

No, Philadelphia Phillies’ reliever Orion Kerkering did not just botch a grounder and throw it away with the season on the line!

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2025

He’ll botch a gig over his annoyance at not being allowed to call a stranger by a pet name she reserves for her closest friend.

From Salon ● Feb. 9, 2024

The botch required the rescoring of 300,000 exams, scholastic victims of the knotty coin rotation paradox.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 20, 2023

Ignore this rule and you'll hesitate, botch it, and be caught like Steve McQueen on barbed wire in The Great Escape.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

The infinite variables in sports can quickly make many of the bets they are holding nearly worthless, whether it is because a player is severely injured or a team botches a crucial touchdown.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 9, 2026

In China, Xinhua news agency's website ran an article with the headline: "British Navy botches test: Missile crashes into the sea with a 'thud', nuclear submarine hovering underwater".

From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2024

That may make it easier to get correct answers, but also can make the stakes higher if the AI goofs and makes a user uncomfortable or botches financial data.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2023

In the afternoon, as camaraderie developed over botches and breakthroughs, we alternated between rolling and raising our wheat dough and, every 30 minutes, stretching and folding the sourdough, which gradually went from sticky to shapely.

From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2023

An' how ye gat him i' your thrall, Au' brak him out o' house an' hall, While scabs an' botches did him gall,                Wi' bitter claw, And lows'd his ill-tongu'd, wicked scawl,                Was warst ava?

From The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe by James Parton

The country’s state media at the time called the botched launch an “unpardonable crime.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

Bureau staffers caught problems mid-transfer, from inaccurate due dates to botched repayment schedules, and directed the companies to fix them.

From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2026

Their first offensive play from scrimmage was a botched snap landing quarterback Koa Malau’ulu on the three-yard line.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026

However, some men have ended up in A&E with a penis turning black and skin "sloughing off" after a botched procedure.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026

I had botched my midterms badly, and I didn’t do too much better on my finals.

From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok

The largest number of victims came from Iran, which accused the Saudis of botching administration of the pilgrimage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 23, 2026

How they did so while blowing a lead on a last-minute miracle pass and then nearly botching the game on an overtime drive, even heaven surely has no idea.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 19, 2026

Disney has won a boardroom battle against critics who had accused the media giant of botching its streaming strategy and losing its creative spark.

From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2024

And once you do, how do you avoid botching up the installation?

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 28, 2024

“I’m sorry. I’m botching this. I'm not used to really talking, just on the Net. Look, I trust you, but I’m not the only one involved. So let’s wait, okay?”

From "Among the Hidden" by Margaret Peterson Haddix