mess
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Eagleson described the situation on Guantanamo as "a mess" and said he had decided not to attend any of the pre-trial proceedings there.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
“I really felt like if I went back to sleep it would mess me up,” Williams said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
The party's economic spokesman Robert Jenrick told Sky News: "'Boohoo… You take your chances if you go to a party conference and try and mess it up."
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
“By Any Means” suggests it takes a dirty man to clean up a historically and culturally entrenched mess.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
His eyes narrow at the mess I’ve made.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
Meta settles teen safety suit, the U.S.-Canada trade war escalates, and Scott Bessent messes around in the markets again.
From Slate ● Aug. 29, 2026
Wallace’s teammates — who clearly are enamored with his energy as a two-way player — like to playfully make fun of him, on the rare occasion he messes up.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
WSJ | Buy Side: Pick up small messes without lugging out the big vacuum—see our top handheld-vacuum picks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026
Built in part from five years of therapy notes, the album finds Smith revisiting moments of struggle, recovery and, as he puts it, "all the sort of messes in between".
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
Who wants a clubhouse with a kid brother who messes everything up?
From "Zara’s Rules for Record-Breaking Fun" by Hena Khan
It’s going to be easier for people who messed up on their taxes to get back in the good graces of the IRS.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026
Because her whole life, she’s been told, ‘You’re wrong, you’ve messed up, you’ve got things wrong.’
From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2026
If they messed up, which many did, they had to raise their arms and say “Ta-da!”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
“I backed up on my first two attempts at 6-9 and that messed me up,” Harel said.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2026
“I should’ve. I knew it was messed up. It can be hard to stand up to Stacy sometimes. But I shouldn’t have gone along with something I knew wasn’t right.”
From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée
“We’ve got to be messing up the exchange rate or something, right?” the Virginia theater fan recalls.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
Right now, however, he looks like a kid who spent the morning messing around with his friends.
From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2026
Elsewhere, the recent single American Girls gained a long, trippy intro, with Styles messing around on an old analogue keyboard, tweaking low pass filters and playing squiggly synth noises.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
Just stop messing with your fans and give them ample notice on games Clark will miss.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2026
Now, after messing up in Chicago, I sat in his office and tried to explain how much pressure I’d been feeling.
From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles
