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Recent Examples of hit-and-miss
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.
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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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hit-and-miss
Adjective
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Tidmarsh’s ouster is the latest in a string of haphazard leadership changes at the agency, which has been rocked for months by firings, departures and controversial decisions on vaccines, fluoride and other products.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
3 Nov. 2025
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If the segues in Scene don’t feel haphazard and herky-jerky, this is in no small part because of the role addiction plays as connective tissue between sections, a kind of leitmotif.—
Nick Pinkerton,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Rumors have swirled that Jaramillo was at the center of an ambush or that his murder was part of planned retribution, but Cordero-Stutz reaffirmed that his death was a random encounter that could have happened to any deputy that day.—
Devoun Cetoute,
Miami Herald,
8 Nov. 2025
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This is the random bunch of misfits Courteney will have to transform into a team competitive enough to make it to nationals, and that will surely start to form one big family along the way.—
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Brown has been extremely hit-or-miss this season.—
Harold Gutmann,
Mercury News,
6 Nov. 2025
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Although its interface works well, the actual recommendations are hit-or-miss.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
25 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The core loop spans 18 miles with 4,500 feet of elevation gain, winding from Colchuck Lake’s turquoise waters to the Upper Enchantment Basin’s moonscape of polished granite and scattered tarns.—
Jacqueline Kehoe,
AFAR Media,
15 Oct. 2025
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Michigan residents are in for another seasonable week, with cooler temperatures and scattered rain, according to the National Weather Service.—
Sarah Moore,
Freep.com,
13 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Maia has help from her friends Charlie (Jordan Firstman), a pop star stylist and Alani (True Whitaker), an aimless movie biz nepo baby.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
30 Oct. 2025
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The story of an aimless college grad’s dalliance with an older woman—only to fall for her daughter—is as sophisticated as comedies, and coming of age stories, get.—
John Ortved,
Vogue,
29 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Yesterday’s desultory 37-20 loss to Kansas City left them at an ugly 1-3 on the season.—
Richard Deitsch,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 2025
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The story, originally conceived by Truffaut, is a thin, desultory affair, about a French hoodlum on the run and his doomed fling with an American expat.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
27 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Landor should ahve been protected by the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, passed unanimously by Congress in 2000 to prevent state and local prisons from placing arbitrary or unnecessary restrictions on religious practices.—
Maureen Groppe,
USA Today,
10 Nov. 2025
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The notion of a non-arbitrary, standard length got a boost in the early days of physics, with the idea of a length that could be held to a standard that anyone on Earth could adhere to.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
10 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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More than 110,000 people have watched that video so far, and to this day, a stray commenter still occasionally sees fit to leave a snide remark.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 Nov. 2025
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This includes stray rounds, shells, or empty casings.—
Jasmine Laws,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Nov. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Hit-and-miss.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hit-and-miss. Accessed 22 Nov. 2025.
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