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Recent Examples of hit-and-miss
Global Strategy Insights Global research conducted for my latest book, Work-Life Bloom, suggests that leaders and organizations are in a 'hit-and-miss' situation regarding strategy and its effectiveness with team members.
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Dan Pontefract, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
This is fairly hit-and-miss — there are lots of references and hyper online deep cuts.
—Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 20 Oct. 2024
Some users have reported limited success flashing firmware using Samsung's Odin to avoid losing data to a factory reset, although that seems to be very hit-and-miss.
—Joe Hindy, PCMAG, 3 Oct. 2024
Theatrical releases have become pricey hit-and-miss situations, but the streaming results put Wolfs in the win column for Apple, which has signed Watts to script to direct a sequel.
—Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 1 Oct. 2024
So these detection models are still really hit-and-miss.
—Leah Feiger, WIRED, 6 Sep. 2024
These movies, targeted at the AARP crowd (Girls Trip this is not) almost totally rely on the chemistry of casting, and this is where The Fabulous Four lives up to its name with Bette Midler, Susan Sarandon, Megan Mullally and Sheryl Lee Ralph all trying to sock some hit-and-miss material home.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 24 July 2024
While the band’s performances are spirited on A Kind of Magic, the songs are hit-and-miss, and Queen sometimes sounds lost in David Richards and Reinhold Mack’s cavernous production.
—Al Shipley, SPIN, 18 May 2024
Screenshot by Tom Warren / The Verge Like the image generation, the paragraph rewriting can be a little hit-and-miss, introducing different meaning to sentences by swapping out words.
—Tom Warren, The Verge, 21 Feb. 2024
Dan Pontefract, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
This is fairly hit-and-miss — there are lots of references and hyper online deep cuts.
—Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 20 Oct. 2024
Some users have reported limited success flashing firmware using Samsung's Odin to avoid losing data to a factory reset, although that seems to be very hit-and-miss.
—Joe Hindy, PCMAG, 3 Oct. 2024
Theatrical releases have become pricey hit-and-miss situations, but the streaming results put Wolfs in the win column for Apple, which has signed Watts to script to direct a sequel.
—Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 1 Oct. 2024
So these detection models are still really hit-and-miss.
—Leah Feiger, WIRED, 6 Sep. 2024
These movies, targeted at the AARP crowd (Girls Trip this is not) almost totally rely on the chemistry of casting, and this is where The Fabulous Four lives up to its name with Bette Midler, Susan Sarandon, Megan Mullally and Sheryl Lee Ralph all trying to sock some hit-and-miss material home.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 24 July 2024
While the band’s performances are spirited on A Kind of Magic, the songs are hit-and-miss, and Queen sometimes sounds lost in David Richards and Reinhold Mack’s cavernous production.
—Al Shipley, SPIN, 18 May 2024
Screenshot by Tom Warren / The Verge Like the image generation, the paragraph rewriting can be a little hit-and-miss, introducing different meaning to sentences by swapping out words.
—Tom Warren, The Verge, 21 Feb. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hit-and-miss
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Instead of relying on haphazard observations and product claims, the Outside Lab @ CU Denver set up an experiment to find out which travel mug keeps beverages warmest the longest.Adam Trenkamp, Outside Online, 10 Oct. 2024
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At times, the company seems to police videos primarily in response to public outcry, which makes its decisions inherently haphazard and potentially malleable.Louise Matsakis, WIRED, 2 Mar. 2018
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When shown random pixels, the judge guessed correctly only about 59% of the time.Stephen Ornes, Quanta Magazine, 8 Nov. 2024
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So far, the only sign of anything amiss is the random Magic Marker doodle on the back of one of the many papers in Kornacki’s hands.Jen Chaney, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2024
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Despite the one that started it all, Halloween episodes tend to be slightly more hit-or-miss than other holidays for Bob’s.Lillian Brown, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2024
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Next up was Giancarlo Stanton, the exemplar of our hit-or-miss moment: he’s amassed more home runs and strikeouts than any active player.Nicholas Dawidoff, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2024
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But all that realistically aimless setup is worth the payoff, because once the screaming starts, the movie transforms into an arrestingly abstract nightmare, psychedelically splintering time and space and reality around the characters.A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 30 July 2024
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The aimless offenses allowed the Pelicans to go on a 13-0 run and take a 17-point lead after one period.Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 29 Oct. 2024
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Trade between the states remains strong, yet communication between the two countries, once robust, is now mostly desultory meetings between officials and foreign ministers.Shivshankar Menon, Foreign Affairs, 8 Dec. 2021
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The Expos finished 52-110. — 1943 and 1916 Athletics, 20 in a row: Mack (not Mauch) staggered through a desultory August 1943, that included 24 losses in the last 25 games of the month.Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2024
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This push to start campaigns earlier is not arbitrary.Kate Hardcastle, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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Expiration dates are somewhat arbitrary The US Food and Drug Administration only began requiring drug manufacturers to put an expiration date on medications in 1979.Keren Landman, Vox, 4 Nov. 2024
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And Price withdrew special-circumstances allegations against the men accused of killing 23-month-old Jasper Wu with a stray bullet during a 2021 freeway shooting.East Bay Times editorial, The Mercury News, 25 Oct. 2024
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She’s saddled with an impossible role — that of Susan, an unhappy American wife on vacation with her husband in Morocco, where she’s hit by a stray bullet that puts her life in danger and generates artificial life-or-death stakes.Tim Grierson, Vulture, 18 Oct. 2024
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Was all this slapdash music generation serving in some way to devalue music in my life? Max Vehuni, one half of the indie-pop duo slenderbodies, talked me off that ledge.Chris Velazco, Washington Post, 5 July 2024
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All that history means Delta is far from a slapdash app quickly thrown together to take advantage of Apple's new openness to emulation.Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 18 Apr. 2024
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“Hit-and-miss.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hit-and-miss. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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