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
The conditions were near farcical, the ball frequently squirming through fingers and set-pieces a mess, with Scotland making the lion's share of blunders.
From BBC • Feb. 7, 2026
“That reputation's wrecked. His reputation with kids as this...hard-knock you don't mess with is wrecked too. Without a reputation to hide his secret behind, Neal Brose is...totally...completely...”
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
