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Recent Examples of hit-and-miss
What to Pack Cell service is hit-and-miss, so bring an emergency SOS device, like a Garmin inReach.
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Robert Annis,
Midwest Living,
18 June 2026
This service should be regular and ongoing, not hit-and-miss.
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Chicago Tribune,
9 June 2026
The onsite restaurant went through a several hit-and-miss iterations before the current occupant, La Pentola, took over.
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Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 June 2026
Drew Allar, Penn State Allar has prototypical size, tantalizing arm strength and… well, hit-and-miss production.
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Parker Gabriel,
Denver Post,
8 Apr. 2026
Alabama transfer Isaiah Bond was more hit-and-miss, and Oregon State’s Silas Bolden had little impact other than letting punts bounce for extra yards time after time.
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Kirk Bohls,
Houston Chronicle,
9 Mar. 2026
But overall, styling is hit-and-miss on this one in my humble opinion.
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New Atlas,
4 Mar. 2026
And to say its fusillade of jokes is hit-and-miss would also be a charitable take.
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Los Angeles Times,
27 Feb. 2026
The hit-and-miss driverless experience comes despite Musk responding in September to a Robotaxi user’s social media lament about having a supervisor in the driver’s seat.
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Andrea Guzmán,
Austin American Statesman,
21 Jan. 2026
Robert Annis,
Midwest Living,
18 June 2026
This service should be regular and ongoing, not hit-and-miss.
—
Chicago Tribune,
9 June 2026
The onsite restaurant went through a several hit-and-miss iterations before the current occupant, La Pentola, took over.
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Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 June 2026
Drew Allar, Penn State Allar has prototypical size, tantalizing arm strength and… well, hit-and-miss production.
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Parker Gabriel,
Denver Post,
8 Apr. 2026
Alabama transfer Isaiah Bond was more hit-and-miss, and Oregon State’s Silas Bolden had little impact other than letting punts bounce for extra yards time after time.
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Kirk Bohls,
Houston Chronicle,
9 Mar. 2026
But overall, styling is hit-and-miss on this one in my humble opinion.
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New Atlas,
4 Mar. 2026
And to say its fusillade of jokes is hit-and-miss would also be a charitable take.
—
Los Angeles Times,
27 Feb. 2026
The hit-and-miss driverless experience comes despite Musk responding in September to a Robotaxi user’s social media lament about having a supervisor in the driver’s seat.
—
Andrea Guzmán,
Austin American Statesman,
21 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hit-and-miss
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Promising young filmmakers, having cobbled together haphazard budgets for an Easy Rider or Bonnie and Clyde couldn’t find coherent support for new ideas.
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In the early 2000s, especially, Ashley favored haphazard updos, with layers falling from the sides, as seen at the spring 2005 Marc Jacobs show in New York.
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Luka Dončić got traded at midnight on a random Saturday in February.
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Pinned to their random assortment of hats were scrawled, handmade signs proclaiming liberty or death.
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This early in the forecast, yes, but they’ll be scattered and hit-or-miss.
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The highlight reel feature is pretty hit-or-miss.
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The right conversation could turn scattered effort into a working plan.
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If your data is messy, scattered or stale, the AI output fails.
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Liam, once aimless and unhoused, quickly finds purpose in the charade as a husband and father.
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The book is structured as a quest to figure out why a class of aimless young men in late-Thatcherist Blighty get their kicks out of getting paralytically drunk and bashing one another half to death every weekend.
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The impact of that shocking final scene is sufficient to send viewers out feeling enervated after what’s been a pretty desultory final act.
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Where Bonnie and Clyde glamorizes its couple and their crimes, Loden renders Wanda passive and desultory in the lawless turn her life has taken.
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Hundreds of people have been detained and Serbia's police was accused of excessive force and arbitrary arrests.
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Hundreds of people have been detained and Serbia’s police was accused of excessive force and arbitrary arrests.
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Researchers also measured static electric fields by observing how stray fields displaced the ion from its resting position.
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It is famously located in a massive parking lot, and close to nothing other than a horse track that houses plenty of stray cats.
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“Hit-and-miss.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hit-and-miss. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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