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Noun
His most notable contribution of the first half was a mix-up in possession between him and Solanke on the halfway line, leading to Wolves’ second goal. Elias Burke, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2025 McMahon, 76, made the mix-up on April 8 while speaking at the ASU+GSV Summit, an event focusing on educational innovation. Jonathan Limehouse, USA Today, 12 Apr. 2025 The mix-up comes less than a year after Monash IVF reached a $56 million settlement in a class action lawsuit with more than 700 former patients for the destruction of potentially viable embryos due to faulty screening. Vanessa Etienne, People.com, 10 Apr. 2025 And What Changed? Frito-Lay issued a voluntary recall after discovering a packaging mix-up: fewer than 1,300 bags labeled as Tostitos Cantina Traditional Yellow Corn Tortilla Chips may actually contain nacho cheese tortilla chips, which include milk. Stephanie Gravalese, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for mix (up)
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mix (up)
Verb
  • All of the footage from The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon makes the show-within-a-show look silly, which the series confuses with humorousness.
    Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 12 May 2025
  • While no one should ever have confused the entertainment business with a warm binkie, the institutions themselves are in the new and awkward spot of having to justify their existence.
    Dana Harris-Bridson, IndieWire, 12 May 2025
Verb
  • Light pollution disrupts animal behavior, interrupts plant cycles, and affects human health.
    Valerie Stimac, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
  • Body temperatures reaching 104 degrees Fahrenheit can cause heatstroke, a condition that disrupts biological processes throughout the body.
    Sanket Jain, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2025
Noun
  • Jamie Moraga, Franklin Revere NO: San Diego’s roads are in dire condition after years of deferred maintenance; drastically cutting the road-repair budget now would be a serious mistake.
    Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 May 2025
  • Honeywell has learned from its mistakes, delivering a sensible forecast during its April 29 quarterly earnings report.
    Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 9 May 2025
Verb
  • Bemused tourists attempt to shuffle through the acrid red and blue flare smoke.
    Tim Spiers, New York Times, 18 May 2025
  • All of those departures except for Stark came before the draft, meaning Paton was left to shuffle the chairs and adjust on the fly to ensure the Broncos were prepared.
    Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 16 May 2025
Noun
  • However, severe cases of extremely high blood pressure may lead to symptoms resembling anxiety or panic, such as headache, vision changes, vomiting, confusion, shortness of breath, or chest discomfort or pain.
    Angela Ryan Lee, Health, 15 May 2025
  • Save us from violence, discord, and confusion; from pride and arrogance, and from every evil way.
    Jeannie Suk Gersen, New Yorker, 15 May 2025
Verb
  • These days, there’s no shortage of packable, lightweight sleeping pads to make sure no peas (or pebbles) ever disturb your slumber on your next backpacking trip.
    Scott Gilbertson, Wired News, 11 May 2025
  • There’s been plenty of disturbing news lately about energy belligerence and blackouts, for instance.
    Christine Ro, Forbes.com, 9 May 2025
Noun
  • There are fewer opportunities for foul-ups and mishandling between flights when there are fewer connections and layovers.
    Bailey Berg, AFAR Media, 5 Mar. 2025
  • There are fewer opportunities for foul-ups and mishandling between flights when there are fewer connections and layovers.
    Bailey Berg, AFAR Media, 5 Mar. 2025

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“Mix (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mix%20%28up%29. Accessed 21 May. 2025.

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