as in to fumble
to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way
you've mangled this so badly that we'll have to do it over
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Recent Examples of mangle
Their family of 11 is living in a tent alongside heaps of concrete and mangled steel that now lie where their home once stood.
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Jeremy Diamond, CNN, 6 Mar. 2025
Images showed an uprooted tree smashed into a mobile home while mangled debris littered the streets.
—Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2025
Comedian Roseanne Barr mangled it.
—Phaedra Trethan, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2025
The severance can mangle their sense of freedom, marring liberation with guilt and anger.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Feb. 2025
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Jeremy Diamond, CNN, 6 Mar. 2025
Images showed an uprooted tree smashed into a mobile home while mangled debris littered the streets.
—Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2025
Comedian Roseanne Barr mangled it.
—Phaedra Trethan, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2025
The severance can mangle their sense of freedom, marring liberation with guilt and anger.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mangle
Verb
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The stress of getting to your airport gate on time, coupled with the excitement of getting to your destination, can cause even the most seasoned of travelers to fumble at security checkpoints.—
Amelia McBride,
Travel + Leisure,
17 May 2025
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For example, if an officer sees someone swerving, fumbling with items, or clearly not paying attention to the road, the interior light might factor into a citation for reckless or inattentive driving.—
Tiffani Jackson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
16 May 2025
Verb
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In addition, strong winds over desert areas could result in briefly lowered visibilities to well under a mile at times in blowing dust or blowing sand.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
11 May 2025
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Those cops do more than blow whistles and bark signals.—
Paul Solotaroff,
Rolling Stone,
11 May 2025
Verb
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Therefore the May revise, as it’s dubbed, is likely to contain even more expedient fixes that may postpone the day of fiscal reckoning until Newsom’s governorship ends two years hence but will continue to plague his successor and the Legislature.—
Dan Walters,
Mercury News,
9 May 2025
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Don Hankey, often dubbed the king of subprime auto lending, is parting ways with his palatial pad in Highland Beach, just south of Palm Beach and Fort Lauderdale.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
9 May 2025
Verb
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However, for some, gambling is an addiction that can ruin lives and families.—
Daniella Segura,
Sacbee.com,
9 May 2025
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Sonos is very, very sorry for ruining your speaker system.—
Boone Ashworth,
Wired News,
9 May 2025
Verb
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Yet their evaluations of CIA excesses are oddly muted, as if botched attempts to murder foreign leaders were just another form of intelligence failure.—
James Santel,
The Atlantic,
8 May 2025
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The latter only just conducted its maiden flight in January; the rocket successfully reached orbit, but the first-stage booster botched its landing.—
Michael Kan,
PC Magazine,
6 May 2025
Verb
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The rest of the animal was butchered and the resulting cuts of meat distributed.—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
16 May 2025
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Some of the bustard remains show evidence of being butchered and cooked, with cut marks similar to those made on modern-day turkeys after Thanksgiving, researchers said in an April 16 news release from the Natural History Museum in London.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
24 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Wasted opportunities Two of O'Brien's best talk show moments were bungled at the ceremony.—
Staff Author,
EW.com,
4 May 2025
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With new signings badly needed, the January transfer window instead saw the promising defender Juma Bah lost to Manchester City for €6m after the teenager’s contract situation was bungled.—
Dermot Corrigan,
New York Times,
24 Apr. 2025
Verb
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An embarrassing, humbling, shocking Game 5 defeat showed that. All the same problems, the ones that destroyed Leaf team after Leaf team and ultimately ended Sheldon Keefe’s time as head coach, are emerging again at the worst possible time.—
Jonas Siegel,
New York Times,
15 May 2025
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In order to retrieve the original source code of the Entity and destroy it, Hunt has to risk life and limb and dive into icy arctic waters to a sunken Soviet submarine teetering 500 feet underwater.—
Anne Thompson,
IndieWire,
15 May 2025
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“Mangle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mangle. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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