mix up with
phrasal verb
mixed up with; mixing up with; mixes up with
1
: to mistakenly put (something) with (something else)
Did my homework get mixed up with your papers?
2
: to cause (someone) to become involved with (a particular group of people and especially with people who cause trouble)
She was mixed up with the wrong crowd.
teenage boys getting mixed up with gangs
Examples of mix up with in a Sentence
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But this transition has become mixed up with sensitive issues of identity, including the place of gay and trans kids and families in the Church.
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Emma Green, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
Kate Winslet has no issue being mixed up with fellow Oscar winner Cate Blanchett.
—Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 27 Feb. 2024
Young was a property developer who’d become mixed up with unsavory Russian businessmen.
—Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
Despite their client no longer holding public office, Trump's legal team argued the unique and sensitive nature of the job requires that the president not be mixed up with threats of legal action.
—Melissa Quinn, Robert Legare, CBS News, 5 Oct. 2023
They are not tempted to sit around doing nothing or get mixed up with bad influences on the street.
—Gen Handley, SPIN, 19 Oct. 2023
But then his school shuttered overnight last spring after a local gang, increasingly mixed up with international drug trafficking, threatened to kill the entire student body, angry that rivals might be sitting in homerooms.
—Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Oct. 2023
In Charlie’s case, that tenderness is brought out by a local girl, Mabel (a tough-acting Jenna Ortega), who’s mixed up with drug dealers, but wants to go to community college.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 8 Sep. 2023
Review and Outlook: During Devon Archer's testimony to the House Oversight Committee, a picture emerged of how Hunter Biden's role on the board of Burisma got mixed up with Vice-President Joe Biden's Ukraine diplomacy.
—The Editorial Board, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2023
Emma Green, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
Kate Winslet has no issue being mixed up with fellow Oscar winner Cate Blanchett.
—Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 27 Feb. 2024
Young was a property developer who’d become mixed up with unsavory Russian businessmen.
—Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
Despite their client no longer holding public office, Trump's legal team argued the unique and sensitive nature of the job requires that the president not be mixed up with threats of legal action.
—Melissa Quinn, Robert Legare, CBS News, 5 Oct. 2023
They are not tempted to sit around doing nothing or get mixed up with bad influences on the street.
—Gen Handley, SPIN, 19 Oct. 2023
But then his school shuttered overnight last spring after a local gang, increasingly mixed up with international drug trafficking, threatened to kill the entire student body, angry that rivals might be sitting in homerooms.
—Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Oct. 2023
In Charlie’s case, that tenderness is brought out by a local girl, Mabel (a tough-acting Jenna Ortega), who’s mixed up with drug dealers, but wants to go to community college.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 8 Sep. 2023
Review and Outlook: During Devon Archer's testimony to the House Oversight Committee, a picture emerged of how Hunter Biden's role on the board of Burisma got mixed up with Vice-President Joe Biden's Ukraine diplomacy.
—The Editorial Board, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2023
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“Mix up with.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mix%20up%20with. Accessed 27 Apr. 2024.
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