slapdash
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Root and Head elevated themselves above the rest and Michael Neser took 4-60 in an improved Australia bowling performance, but England were slapdash with the ball and Smith's dismissal was atrocious.
From BBC • Jan. 5, 2026
In doing so, he became victim to one of the most staggering dismissals of an England batter in Test cricket, one that perfectly encapsulates the slapdash nature of their Ashes series defeat.
From BBC • Jan. 4, 2026
The composition of these black-and-white street photographs seems slapdash, but the images work brilliantly.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025
These long-standing facilities were joined this month by a slapdash detention camp in the Everglades known as “Alligator Alcatraz.”
From Salon • Jul. 21, 2025
They interpreted their slapdash working conditions, created by chronic underfunding by the AEC, as an ominous sign that the agency’s commitment to Livermore remained conditional.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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