messes
Example Sentences
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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
The beds and food bowls are gone; the floor where they always left messes after devouring the grub I made them is eerily clean.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
“People end up in the hospital all the time due to that, and it messes up medicine management too.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 12, 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
Boxes filled with fruit and vegetables had torn, and their contents had spilled and broken into slippery messes on the floor.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
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