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foul up

[foul-uhp] / ˈfaʊlˌʌp /




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Will this dirty business foul up anyone’s career?

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2025

What we want to do here is foul up the hard drive platters, the spinning discs that our data is meticulously placed upon.

From Washington Post • Jul. 8, 2022

Self-deleting messages can also foul up long-established record-retention practices and, for some federal employees, they may constitute a violation of the law.

From New York Times • Jul. 6, 2017

This winter, he says, there’s no El Nino to foul up the weather prognostication.

From Washington Times • Aug. 14, 2016

Some inmates, for example, would try to flush something huge, like a bedsheet, in hopes it might foul up the entire block’s plumbing or allow them to flood the gallery.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover




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