half-baked
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Or they resort to fanciful or half-baked plans if they get sick.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 15, 2026
Companies will respond by either rushing half-baked products to market, steering clear of high-risk diseases, or abandoning incremental advances that might later trigger should-have-done-it-sooner tort suits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026
Meta’s Quest headsets were still clunky, and the software looked half-baked.
From Barron's ● Jan. 16, 2026
And judging by its half-baked proposals, BP has either forgotten the lessons of what it termed a “catastrophe” or decided that catastrophe is an acceptable risk.
From Slate ● Jan. 14, 2026
It was a bad habit, Mitchell Sanders said, because all that matters is the raw material, the stuff itself, and you can’t clutter it up with your own half-baked commentary.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
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