mess with
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“Our adversaries are not just trying to mess with our infrastructure, they’re trying to manipulate how we feel,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
"I think this is gonna mess with everybody's heads," said Fry.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
It really does affect your soul, so you don’t wanna mess with those frequencies.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
“I just quit. I don’t want to mess with the therapist anymore,” Beaman told us this spring.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
I did that thing—the thing where I allowed cute boys to get in my head and mess with my common sense—and I’d let my conversation with Jacobi distract me from the bigger picture here.
From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi
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