mess with
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"Don't mess with Canada," warned Thomas Lukaszuk, a former lawmaker whose Forever Canadian campaign played a key role in this referendum's outcome.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 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
“Trust me, you don’t want to mess with any of us.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
“I just quit. I don’t want to mess with the therapist anymore,” Beaman told us this spring.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
“He didn’t know we were here when he came to the library. He only went for the camera after he saw us. Remember? We were hiding. He came here to mess with Father Time.”
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
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