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Recent Examples of hit-and-miss
Her exit comes after a hit-and-miss string of Prime Video titles with high budgets: Under her tenure, for every spectacular Fallout came a lackluster Citadel or Red One.
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Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 28 Mar. 2025
Yet success and financial backing were hit-and-miss until 2019 with Stewart-Haas Racing.
—Edgar Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 10 Feb. 2025
The quality of the ensemble players can be hit-and-miss.
—Nina Metz, Twin Cities, 10 Jan. 2025
And there is, of course, uncertainty in partnering with any movie due to the hit-and-miss nature of Hollywood.
—Louis Biscotti, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
This is fairly hit-and-miss — there are lots of references and hyper online deep cuts.
—Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 20 Oct. 2024
Some users have reported limited success flashing firmware using Samsung's Odin to avoid losing data to a factory reset, although that seems to be very hit-and-miss.
—Joe Hindy, PCMAG, 3 Oct. 2024
Theatrical releases have become pricey hit-and-miss situations, but the streaming results put Wolfs in the win column for Apple, which has signed Watts to script to direct a sequel.
—Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 1 Oct. 2024
Instead of hit-and-miss iterative processes, Toney and his team are trying to uncover the fundamental chemistry and physics that make our next-generation energy storage and generation systems operate.
—IEEE Spectrum, 5 Apr. 2017
Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 28 Mar. 2025
Yet success and financial backing were hit-and-miss until 2019 with Stewart-Haas Racing.
—Edgar Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 10 Feb. 2025
The quality of the ensemble players can be hit-and-miss.
—Nina Metz, Twin Cities, 10 Jan. 2025
And there is, of course, uncertainty in partnering with any movie due to the hit-and-miss nature of Hollywood.
—Louis Biscotti, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
This is fairly hit-and-miss — there are lots of references and hyper online deep cuts.
—Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 20 Oct. 2024
Some users have reported limited success flashing firmware using Samsung's Odin to avoid losing data to a factory reset, although that seems to be very hit-and-miss.
—Joe Hindy, PCMAG, 3 Oct. 2024
Theatrical releases have become pricey hit-and-miss situations, but the streaming results put Wolfs in the win column for Apple, which has signed Watts to script to direct a sequel.
—Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 1 Oct. 2024
Instead of hit-and-miss iterative processes, Toney and his team are trying to uncover the fundamental chemistry and physics that make our next-generation energy storage and generation systems operate.
—IEEE Spectrum, 5 Apr. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hit-and-miss
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The mass arrests and roundups thus far have been so haphazard that there is a very real likelihood that innocent individuals have also been swept up and deported.—
Nisha Whitehead,
Oc Register,
28 Mar. 2025
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But swirling around it are immigration restrictions, headlong and haphazard reductions in Federal spending and a separate but related confidence shock weighing on consumer behavior.—
Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
22 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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And as for the new show, the contestants are no longer random.—
CT Jones,
Rolling Stone,
10 Apr. 2025
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Nicki Minaj was reportedly the target of a random swatting attack by someone who told police there had been a shooting at her Hidden Hills home.—
Mackenzie Cummings-Grady,
Billboard,
10 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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This season, though, has been hit-or-miss.—
Matt Webb Mitovich,
TVLine,
24 Mar. 2025
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Neither should be trusted often in man-to-man coverage and can be hit-or-miss in zone.—
Doug Kyed,
Boston Herald,
10 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Nine years after hitting rock bottom with three NCAA bids and a majority of programs in an aimless malaise, the SEC collected on a concerted effort to prioritize the sport.—
Joe Rexrode,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 2025
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Responding to concerns that the party is somewhat aimless without an official leader, Schumer said Democrats have many talented leaders.—
Allison Pecorin,
ABC News,
18 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Yet, the Raptors haven’t made the playoffs in the desultory East since 2022, when Philadelphia dispatched them in the first round.—
David Aldridge,
New York Times,
11 Apr. 2025
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Although the United States and its allies could deal with such ripostes, there would be no obvious military strategy to bring even a desultory exchange of strikes and counterstrikes to an end.—
Barry R. Posen,
Foreign Affairs,
7 Sep. 2010
Adjective
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The responses, submitted by a fairly arbitrary group of women, range from profound to half-hearted.—
Anna Wiener,
New Yorker,
9 Apr. 2025
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Too many leaders seek to lead down by being authoritative, by pushing dictates on people and relentlessly driving forward toward arbitrary goals and deadlines.—
Andrew Deutscher,
Forbes.com,
9 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The stray dog, named Grey, and his family lived in the fields near the Animal Terra shelter in Moldova, Eastern Europe.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 Apr. 2025
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The Israeli military said that soldiers buried the bodies to prevent them from being mangled by stray dogs and coyotes until they could be collected, and that the ambulances were moved to allow the route to be used for civilian evacuations later that day.—
Melanie Lidman,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Apr. 2025
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Mad About the Boy, an adaptation of the slapdash third novel that starts streaming on Peacock on February 13, keeps the trope-laden structure, but finds surprising depth in a devastating plot twist.—
Sophie Gilbert,
The Atlantic,
7 Feb. 2025
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The seemingly slapdash document to overhaul the nation’s spending priorities created confusion throughout the federal government.—
Eric Cortellessa,
TIME,
29 Jan. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Hit-and-miss.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hit-and-miss. Accessed 27 Apr. 2025.
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