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Carreras made amends with a try of his own although Northampton started turning the screw despite Bath unloading their bench of big-hitters.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

When done as well as Mr. Riley’s, oral histories provide new revelations about rivalries, hidden strategies and screw ups.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

Elliot needs to suffer one more turn of the screw before the movie hurries toward a Hollywood ending that it doesn’t believe in at all.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026

A right-handed screw fits a right-handed thread, while a left-handed screw does not.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 2026

But I won’t deny that there may be a screw or two loose.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

The spiral's shape determines how it responds to this flow, similar to the difference between screws with right- or left-handed threads.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2026

McGee came up in San Francisco’s graffiti scene in the 1980s, developing a visual language under the moniker Twist that included faces, liquor bottles and stylized screws.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

Still, she thought that most policymakers seemed keen to avoid moving too quickly, and may hold rates at this meeting, waiting to tighten the screws until the following meeting in early December.

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026

The right way to fix the holes in the floor is kind of abstract, while the screws and plates in my utility closet are right there.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

Then I put the screws in, all one hundred and ten of them, and that took forever.

From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick

Veteran lifestyle guru Martha Stewart has admitted she "really screwed up" by dressing as a homeless person for Halloween.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

"It was good and they screwed up here. They gave it away," the 62-year-old told AFP.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

Unavoidably the text has been chopped and channeled, with some swapping of parts, bits of narration screwed into dialogue and events described in a paragraph blown out into scenes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

“Even if we won close and kind of ugly,” Kiffin said, “the whole story would have been, ‘I screwed the team up.’”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

I was kind of scared, but I screwed my face up into a scowl and waited.

From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn

Overall, the costs of screwing up can greatly exceed the benefits of getting it right.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026

An assembly line of around 30 middle-aged men and women is screwing, drilling and polishing CRP Technology's signature product: a robotic arm which performs various industrial tasks.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026

"Gentlemen, stop screwing around and get over here to help your brothers gear up the parachute. Find yourself a good-looking life companion and get to work," he shouted.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

Which reminds me of another hapless cartoon character who thought himself a genius but who kept screwing things up in ceaseless pursuit of his quarry: Wile E. Coyote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2026

He just couldn’t imagine a way to correctly predict the other Katherines without screwing up the ones he’d already gotten down pat.

From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green