screw

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Recent Examples of screw The Broncos got screwed on an interference call that placed the ball on the 1-yard line. Troy Renck, Denver Post, 20 Oct. 2025 Gabriel has royally screwed the pooch. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2025 Simply unscrew the base and fill with water, then heap the coffee into the filter basket and screw on the top. Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 10 Oct. 2025 This screwed a lot of people over. Hadley Hitson, Nashville Tennessean, 10 Oct. 2025 Both have magnets screwed to one end for attaching the corresponding front or top panel, and both are filled with a multi-spaced bracket for installing 120mm to 200mm fans. Thomas Soderstrom, PC Magazine, 4 Oct. 2025 And screw Dalot for that bad pass. Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025 Having obvious trouble is Lesley, who put a layer of shortbread under her flapjack, which screwed up the cooking time, which screwed up the decorating time, which left Lesley, well, screwed. Brian Moylan, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2025 And then everyone else beyond those 35 million people also get screwed, because when all of that money gets pulled out of the health care system, prices go up for everyone, hospitals close. Nik Popli, Time, 26 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for screw
Verb
  • Some items may become distorted or break down over time if washed with the wrong materials.
    Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Trump’s communication strategies are already setting a global precedent, encouraging other politicians to adopt similar theatrical and polarizing tactics that distort or deny facts.
    Andrew Rojecki, The Conversation, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In a sector already squeezed by rising land prices, material costs, and labor shortages, those weeks of manual quantification represent millions of dollars in overhead that never swing a hammer.
    Jon Stojan, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Made mostly of muscle without a bone in their bodies, these wonderful weirdos can squeeze into spaces scarcely bigger than their eyeballs.
    Kate Siber, Outside, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • We’d been deformed, like everybody else, by the same internet, the same social collapse.
    Sam Lipsyte, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Smaller implants are also lighter, more comfortable, and less apt to stretch, strain, and deform the tissues over time.
    Jolene Edgar, Allure, 15 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Guys were continually getting above pucks and taking hard strides back, not cheating for offense.
    Brad Elliott Schlossman, Twin Cities, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Regarding the subject of cheating and whether students might use AI to write essays, edX told Fortune that GradyAI has cheating detection built into its algorithms that can be turned on or off depending on the application.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Rogalski contorted his body and got a foot down in bounds to secure the interception at Mahtomedi’s 42 yard line.
    Andrew Cornelius, Twin Cities, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Unlike traditional rigid robots, the e-MG model can contort its limbs, twist its body, and even swing across surfaces.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Wentz was once plucked from a cocoon in North Dakota and thrown into the Philadelphia fire.
    Alec Lewis, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Helicopters have been plucking people off rooftops for rescue from flooding and structural damage.
    Andrew Freedman, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Mora scored twice against Spain to rescue a draw in the group stage, first skipping into the box after a nutmeg and a neat one-two and curling into the corner before a snapshot volley at the far post.
    Thom Harris, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Fans of curling, figure skating, and a weird sport where people ski and then fire a gun are eagerly anticipating February 2026 for the return of the Winter Olympics!
    Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Make habits stick beyond the season A true lock-in doesn’t end when the calendar turns, the experts agree.
    Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Among the detentions in which allegations have not stuck, masked agents pointed a gun at, pepper sprayed and punched a young man who had filmed them searching for his relative.
    Nicole Foy, ProPublica, 18 Oct. 2025

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“Screw.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/screw. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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