as in to fumble
to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way
bungled the job the first time she tried to do it
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Recent Examples of bungle
Caroline Framke, Vulture, 27 Nov. 2024
Warren has bungled his only critical job — getting a new stadium.
—Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 4 Dec. 2024
If any of that is true, this whole thing is a house of cards, and the Dolphins badly bungled the quarterback position.
—Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 27 Sep. 2024
Boeing bungled its recent mission to ferry astronauts to the ISS so badly that SpaceX has at least a temporary monopoly over astronaut launches from American soil.
—Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
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Becka then bungles the mission when Angelica catches her sprinting out of the bathroom in her comically large hoodie that somehow still can’t hide her distinctive face.
—Caroline Framke, Vulture, 27 Nov. 2024
Warren has bungled his only critical job — getting a new stadium.
—Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 4 Dec. 2024
If any of that is true, this whole thing is a house of cards, and the Dolphins badly bungled the quarterback position.
—Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 27 Sep. 2024
Boeing bungled its recent mission to ferry astronauts to the ISS so badly that SpaceX has at least a temporary monopoly over astronaut launches from American soil.
—Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
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Now, contrast that to the recent experience of Ravens tight end Mark Andrews who, as every devoted local football fan will recall, both fumbled and dropped a crucial two-point conversion pass in a must-win playoff game against the Buffalo Bills.—
Baltimore Sun Editorial Board,
Orlando Sentinel,
25 Jan. 2025
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Like Fuhrman, many were nervous about teachers fumbling over technology and classmates not paying attention.—
Daniel Miller,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Jan. 2025
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Lastly, there was the botch job of trading away Jake Guentzel at the deadline last season.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
16 Jan. 2025
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Spider-Man 3 (2007) A botch job of oppositional motivations practically disowned by its own director, the messiest Spider-Man movie is a near-constant tonal misfire, simultaneously more serious than its predecessors and more willfully goofy.—
Darren Franich,
EW.com,
7 Jan. 2025
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The Eagles defense also uncharacteristically blew several coverages in Week 16, including on two of Daniels’ five touchdown passes.—
Ted Nguyen,
The Athletic,
23 Jan. 2025
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Is this a lot of hocus pocus or a computational paradigm that might blow current capabilities out of the water and make NVDA look like, well, Intel of prior years?—
Vineer Bhansali,
Forbes,
23 Jan. 2025
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Its circular design fits the decor perfectly while leaving room to prevent damage to any bobbles and accessories.—
Shea Simmons,
Better Homes & Gardens,
3 Jan. 2025
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Hairstylist Jenda Alcorn, who regularly works with both Elle and sister Dakota, brought the loose pigtails together with crystal bobbles to just skim her shoulders.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
11 Dec. 2024
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Sign up » Nonfiction In the past fifteen years, an avalanche of literature has been published about how technology has ruined our attention spans.—
The New Yorker,
The New Yorker,
22 Jan. 2025
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However, for some, gambling is an addiction that can ruin lives and families.—
Tanasia Kenney,
Miami Herald,
22 Jan. 2025
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Release date: Friday, Jan. 10 Cast: Ram Charan, Kiara Advani, S.J. Suryah, Anjali Director: S. Shankar Screenwriter: Kartik Subbaraj 2 hours 45 minutes With Game Changer (which this critic saw dubbed in in Hindi), Shankar’s signature maximalist storytelling instincts have gone into overdrive.—
Anupama Chopra,
The Hollywood Reporter,
22 Jan. 2025
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The mountain was first dubbed McKinley by a gold prospector named William Dickey in an 1897 article in The New York Sun.—
Gal Beckerman,
The Atlantic,
21 Jan. 2025
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