messed up
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First controller: "Yeah, I know. I was here. I tried to reach out to my staff. And we were dealing with an emergency earlier. I messed up."
From Barron's • Mar. 23, 2026
"I messed up at the start," he told BBC Sport.
From BBC • Mar. 8, 2026
However, thousands of sidewalk gawkers messed up the audio, making the footage unusable.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 2026
The board must accept they messed up and move on.
From BBC • Dec. 17, 2025
Wouldn’t it be messed up if I just left the Lighthouse and Jaden and the sentence they gave me and went to another country to start over, like Mong said?
From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña
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