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mess

[mes] / mɛs /




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Now, essentially, that opportunity to swarm up the side and make it a mess from behind has gone.

From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026

And, if you own the market, which most of you do, understand that you own this mess too.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2026

Two years after I recovered, I started to report a book about the whole mess, and my friends shared their texts and emails.

From Slate ● Nov. 11, 2026

He sets the Cat up to fail, threatening to fire him if there’s even one mess, then tempting the Cat with a dangerously devious device, the Go-Backer, to clean up his mess.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

Torak curled into a ball, cradling his throbbing arm and thinking bitterly what a mess he’d made of things.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

"Of course the Sanchez years, travelled all over the world with him, been in some classic messes with him in the past partying. Now he's gone but I'll never forget him."

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

All she does is clean up her husband’s messes.

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026

But if a cute little A.I. guy messes up, well, how could you be mad at him?

From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2026

“When private planes are coming, the tower has to let them land—despite the commercial scheduling—and it messes people up,” says Fletcher, wearing a dapper suit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

"The bad one. The loser. That's me. The one who always messes up. Ain't it always been that way?"

From "Miracle's Boys" by Jacqueline Woodson

“OK. But I want to show the imperfections. I want it to be: This kid messed up, and what’s he gonna do about that? Is he gonna be honest with us?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2026

The tacos had not, at that point, been messed with.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

He even wrote back to the crook: “I told the guy, ‘You just messed with the wrong hombre.’

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

"I was looking at the screen and I saw the guy try and surge. But he ran a PB, so he's messed up with the final ahead."

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

Had the smoke from the wildfire somehow messed up the plane’s equipment and made it impossible for the pilot to see?

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

That will only risk messing with your Achilles, your shin and your back.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

Flavio issued fierce denials as Lula took to the campaign trail clutching a statue of the saint, declaring that "messing" with her was "unacceptable."

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

I kept messing up and saying that when we started working on the show, too.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

His folk-singer brother first awakened his interest in politics while being "asked to leave" grammar school for "messing about" deepened his dislike of authority.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

And if I ever got frustrated about messing up, she’d say, “This is supposed to be fun, Gracie. Just enjoy it!”

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison


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