mess with
Example Sentences
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Basically, she said: Judge O’Connor, you think you can mess with a case in my state?
From Slate • May 18, 2026
He called the operations in Ecuador a “giant mess with no exit strategy.”
From Salon • Mar. 12, 2026
Ronnie Chieng plays a more successful agent who loves, or lives, to mess with Monica.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2026
She previously told the court Pitt had a reputation in Weston-super-Mare "as a big name and someone you wouldn't mess with".
From BBC • Jan. 30, 2026
Today was not the day to mess with me.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
