messes
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You know him for countless roles — the self-important playwright Barton Fink or the purple jumpsuit-rocking bowler whom nobody messes with in “The Big Lebowski.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
All she does is clean up her husband’s messes.
From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026
But if a cute little A.I. guy messes up, well, how could you be mad at him?
From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2026
“People end up in the hospital all the time due to that, and it messes up medicine management too.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 12, 2026
Nobody messes about much in Mr. Kempsey's class, but today the mood was like somebody'd died.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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