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verb

past tense of botch

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Kids playing a fun game will no longer pick up a botched, eugenical notion of race alongside their 20-sided dice. Steven Dashiell, Scientific American, 31 July 2024 CrowdStrike has blamed the IT outage on a bug that released a botched update and melted down the world’s computer systems. Aaron Gregg, Washington Post, 24 July 2024 The pause followed the botched death of a man in Oklahoma, who became unconscious only to wake up, thrashing, and die of a heart attack about 40 minutes afterward. Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 25 June 2024 Congo’s problems were a direct outcome of Belgium’s botched transition of Congo to independence in 1960. Herman J. Cohen, Foreign Affairs, 15 Dec. 2014 See all Example Sentences for botched 

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“Botched.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/botched. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

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