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Noun
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Lastly, there was the botch job of trading away Jake Guentzel at the deadline last season.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
16 Jan. 2025 -
Spider-Man 3 (2007) A botch job of oppositional motivations practically disowned by its own director, the messiest Spider-Man movie is a near-constant tonal misfire, simultaneously more serious than its predecessors and more willfully goofy.—
Darren Franich,
EW.com,
7 Jan. 2025
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This business is old and a mess — there aren’t overnight solutions to any of these conversations — but the fact that these conversations are being had by such public figures is such a joy and will lead to change finally.—
Joe Lynch,
Billboard,
13 Feb. 2025
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There was mess from the beginning, and his hands were in all of it.—
Katie Drummond,
WIRED,
13 Feb. 2025
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How much can be attributed to the Comcast fiasco specifically in 2024 is unclear.—
Jon Wilner,
The Mercury News,
3 Feb. 2025
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Following his failure to arrive for questioning about the martial law fiasco, a warrant for Yoon’s arrest was issued on Dec. 31.—
Rachel Wolf,
Fox News,
15 Jan. 2025
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Or, even better, quadruple down on the lies, insults, and hours-long muddles of sentence-fragment non sequiturs that pass for campaign speeches (Donald Trump, 37.3 percent).—
airmail.news,
airmail.news,
26 Oct. 2024
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Microsoft is stepping in to try to straighten up this muddle of conceptually similar, executionally different technologies with a new API called DirectSR (the SR is for Super Resolution).—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
29 Feb. 2024
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Whether it‘s picking apart the factors that led to the chain filing for bankruptcy (and the postmortem of its endless-shrimp disaster), recruiting top talent for his C-suite, or ensuring more restaurants don’t have to close, Adamolekun has plenty of issues to bait his temper.—
Chris Morris,
Fortune,
10 Feb. 2025
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Well, speaking of process versus outcome, that's a disaster.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
9 Feb. 2025
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Pretty weird to see a Yeezy commercial after the red-carpet debacle earlier.—
August Brown,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Feb. 2025
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Though this is all in connection to an interview with a newspaper, the debacle showcases the Academy’s ever-adapting approach toward monitoring online Oscar campaigning.—
Marcus Jones,
IndieWire,
30 Jan. 2025
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