: sometimes successful and sometimes not : not reliably good or successful
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They have been hit-and-miss with their high-quality opportunities, though, with their big-chance conversion rate of 33 per cent matching Manchester United’s.—Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025 The storms are expected to be hit-and-miss, so not everyone will see rain.—Kansas City Star, 17 Sep. 2025 The hit-and-miss nature has been highlighted by those with early access to the hardware.—Ewan Spence, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025 Creating embryo models has also been a hit-and-miss process for most research groups, with only a small percentage of stem cells going on to self-organize into embryo-like structures.—Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 30 July 2025 Capaldi himself was a phenomenal Doctor, bringing that trademark blend of grizzled warrior and cosmic buffoon, but his episodes were a bit hit-and-miss.—Richard Edwards, Space.com, 29 May 2025 Her exit comes after a hit-and-miss string of Prime Video titles with high budgets: Under her tenure, for every spectacular Fallout came a lackluster Citadel or Red One.—Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 28 Mar. 2025
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