mess
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But that can happen any place on any day, and nobody has to mess up an arid ecosystem to enjoy it.
From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2026
“I’d rather mess up naturally than not mess up unnaturally.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
“Right now, we are finding out it’s making a real mess of the job market,” said Hetrick.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
Or it could just be more hardball in this long, drawn-out Middle East mess.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
He came out of the mess worse than Grandpa and I did.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
Wallace’s teammates — who clearly are enamored with his energy as a two-way player — like to playfully make fun of him, on the rare occasion he messes up.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 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
WSJ | Buy Side: Pick up small messes without lugging out the big vacuum—see our top handheld-vacuum picks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026
"I write the scripts, I plan the scenes, and keep redoing things because the AI generation messes up constantly," they wrote.
From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2026
There’s something about how a 3D action looks in a 2D picture that messes with my brain.
From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila
It’s going to be easier for people who messed up on their taxes to get back in the good graces of the IRS.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026
This was one of the ways in which Masi messed up in Abu Dhabi.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026
Your evaluation of the movie will depend almost entirely on whether you find her enchantingly messed up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
Because her whole life, she’s been told, ‘You’re wrong, you’ve messed up, you’ve got things wrong.’
From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2026
Tyler starts talking about the trial and how messed up it will be if the jury gets it wrong, and even though I agree with him, I don’t tell him that.
From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée
Right now, however, he looks like a kid who spent the morning messing around with his friends.
From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2026
But they all have some of them, and it’s messing up their lives and their jobs and their marriages.
From Salon ● Jun. 14, 2026
“Every year the shares have been going up so radically it keeps messing up my life plans,” said Lavoie, 63, who left SpaceX in 2015.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
School nurse and mother of two, Natasha Anderson, said she loved messing about with her hair while growing up - "one week having a big afro, then having hair extensions," she remembers.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026
My mom—who had cut her hair short for the convenience—was still messing with it in the rearview mirror, and still frustrated.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
