mess

You need only watch episodes of “Judge Judy” to see the mess even seemingly intelligent people can get themselves into.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026

"This beautiful developmental transition is completely disrupted in Alzheimer's disease by pathological processes that mess with episodic memory and interfere with circuits that allow you to think about your own life, lexicon, and vocabulary."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

The Guardian called it a "garish and incoherent mess",, external but praised Liang as "formidable" and complimented her "genuinely impressive" fight scenes.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

Threets often thanks his fans for “staying” on social platforms including Threads, Instagram and TikTok, and comments on the “human world” being a mess.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

I feel bad for Mom though, because now she has to deal with the mess I made.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

All she does is clean up her husband’s messes.

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026

But they need to create safe products rather than calling for the nanny state to clean up their messes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

Meta settles teen safety suit, the U.S.-Canada trade war escalates, and Scott Bessent messes around in the markets again.

From Slate ● Aug. 29, 2026

The beds and food bowls are gone; the floor where they always left messes after devouring the grub I made them is eerily clean.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

He was a thin, mild kid who hated getting involved in messes.

From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier

“That messed with my head a little bit.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

The tacos had not, at that point, been messed with.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

“Attention is messed up, and in years we are going to have the same cases with LLMs with children and teenagers.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

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

“I do seem to remember hearing something about the paperwork on that house being messed up, delaying everything—but, of course, it’s none of my business.”

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Flavio issued fierce denials as Lula took to the campaign trail clutching a statue of the saint, declaring that "messing" with her was "unacceptable."

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

“They’re sitting in the chair for hours and hours, so we’re making sure that our choreography isn’t messing with something that takes so long to create,” she explained.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

“We’ve got to be messing up the exchange rate or something, right?” the Virginia theater fan recalls.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026

She said families were hoping Bush would be sentenced to more than 30 years, but what was "really messing with people's heads" was the prospect of him only serving half of his sentence.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

Something more serious than nervous-tummy syndrome was messing with Fig.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas