as in to mess
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The last two seasons have proven that the team starts off slow, which ends up messing their chances of making the playoffs.—
James Brizuela,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 Sep. 2025 -
The Marlins may also potentially mess things for the Phillies quest at avoiding the NL’s third-best record or Detroit’s bid at staying as the team with the top record in the AL.—
Larry Fleisher,
Forbes.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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But which No 9 good enough to lead a Premier League promotion chase is going to come to Leeds this month and sit on the bench waiting for the Dutchman to get crocked? Farke has mentioned Gnonto as an emergency striker option, if needed.—
Beren Cross,
The Athletic,
21 Jan. 2025
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Store indigo garments together or wrap them in tissue to avoid crocking.—
Jolie Kerr,
Better Homes & Gardens,
15 July 2024
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Those aren’t just random words jumbled together to test your reading comprehension—they’re the outcome of recent brand collaborations with Liquid Death.—
Dave Smith,
Fortune,
18 Aug. 2025
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The Cavaliers and Knicks stand apart as East co-favorites but after that it’s jumbled, largely because Achilles injuries recently erased three big stars from next season in the Pacers’ Tyrese Haliburton, Celtics’ Jayson Tatum and Bucks’ Damian Lillard, whom Milwaukee surprisingly waived this week.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
3 July 2025
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Their habitats were ransacked, their migration routes disarranged, truncated, cut off.—
Matthew Gavin Frank,
Harper's Magazine,
21 Oct. 2022
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The unease is muddled, and the characters seem less vulnerable as a result.—
J. Kim Murphy,
Variety,
3 Sep. 2025
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That’s muddling the outlook for rate cuts.—
Bryan Mena,
CNN Money,
3 Sep. 2025
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Disorder of the body disordered the mind.—
Leila Chatti
September 5,
Literary Hub,
5 Sep. 2025
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The Full House alum, 49, opened up about her ongoing struggle with her body image and disordered eating to her guest, author Lisa Whittle, on the July 22 episode of The Candace Cameron Bure Podcast.—
Cara Lynn Shultz,
People.com,
24 July 2025
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The film’s most trenchant scenes involve Gere in states of repose or regret or nostalgia, especially when psychically disarrayed in a chair with a camera facing toward him, wondering what, for example, desire smells like.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
6 Dec. 2024
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Seen in a video that moves through the abandoned and disarrayed hallways of the pediatric intensive care unit at Al-Nasr Children’s Hospital in northern Gaza were several babies whose unattended bodies lay on separate hospital beds.—
Yasmine Salam,
NBC News,
2 Dec. 2023
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Abrasives can scratch or dull the glaze, and harsh chemicals can strip and discolor the grout.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
1 Sep. 2025
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Paperwork submitted by Byers for an inmate was discolored, and when tested for drugs, it was found to be positive for synthetic cannabinoids, said the Sheriff's Office.—
Rey Covarrubias Jr,
AZCentral.com,
18 Aug. 2025
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“Colly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/colly. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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