messed up
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But I didn’t know some of them, and I messed up a few times.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 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
This was one of the ways in which Masi messed up in Abu Dhabi.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 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
She’d messed up a few words, her hands were a little shaky, and she was sure her voice had also been shaky.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
"It's such a messed-up situation. It's just so complex," Caroline, 25, says of the estranged relationship.
From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2026
And all the talk about succession and the throne seems to have been about corporate control within a cartoonishly messed-up family.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2025
It wasn’t just a good role, like a complicated messed-up woman and not a pretty face.
From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2024
“It’s a messed-up situation. The working conditions are horrific. The assaults go up in the summer because of the heat. It’s just a stress factor.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2023
“Look, man,” he told me, “if you don’t want people to look at your messed-up eye you just gotta do this.”
From "The Watsons Go to Birmingham" by Christopher Paul Curtis
