bungle

Example Sentences

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After another bungled team performance from McLaren, Max Verstappen is now within reach of what seemed to be an improbable fifth consecutive drivers' world championship.

From Barron's

Back in 1978, a surgeon had bungled cataract surgery, leaving him blind in his left eye.

From The Wall Street Journal

In their first two decades in power, they nationalized a thousand companies that then collapsed, seized farmland across the country, bungled the oil industry into steep decline and presided over the theft of untold billions.

From The Wall Street Journal

And humans make mistakes too; many years ago, a bungled hospital extubation was the likely cause of my grandmother’s death.

From The Wall Street Journal

Just think of the rows and bungles of the last seven weeks.

From BBC