bungle

Example Sentences

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Olympic bosses, who never met an issue they couldn’t bungle, fretted about precedent.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 15, 2026

Add the examples from psychology and the bungle we're making of the Earth we "manage," and humans don't have good evidence to put ourselves at the top of some kind of evolutionary hierarchy after all.

From Salon • May 29, 2025

I worried that it’d be complicated or that a service issue would bungle the beginning of our trip to the happiest place on Earth.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 20, 2023

And he would have four wins rather than two but for an engine failure in Spain, and Ferrari managing to bungle their strategy last time out in Monaco.

From BBC • Jun. 7, 2022

Because of an administrative bungle, some soldiers were left to convalesce in the hospital.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan