as in to fumble
to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way
muffed the repair job and had to do it again
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Recent Examples of muff
Matt Barrows, The Athletic, 7 Jan. 2025
Harris muffed a toss later that drive to hand the ball back to the Eagles.
—Mike Defabo, The Athletic, 16 Dec. 2024
Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 14 June 2024
Canine passengers will be able to socialize with one another during the flight, and will be offered treats, noise-canceling ear muffs, and beverages.
—Chantelle Lee, TIME, 23 May 2024
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Verb
The 49ers also got next to nothing on kick and punt returns, especially after return man Jacob Cowing muffed a punt that the 49ers were able to gather in after a scramble for the ball.
—Matt Barrows, The Athletic, 7 Jan. 2025
Harris muffed a toss later that drive to hand the ball back to the Eagles.
—Mike Defabo, The Athletic, 16 Dec. 2024
Noun
Indeed a powerful sensuousness lingers in these small drawings and sketches, notably in Wenzel Hollar’s decadent piles of muffs and stoles and Félix Vallotton’s hoard of women shoppers caressing fabrics.
—Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 14 June 2024
Canine passengers will be able to socialize with one another during the flight, and will be offered treats, noise-canceling ear muffs, and beverages.
—Chantelle Lee, TIME, 23 May 2024
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Now, contrast that to the recent experience of Ravens tight end Mark Andrews who, as every devoted local football fan will recall, both fumbled and dropped a crucial two-point conversion pass in a must-win playoff game against the Buffalo Bills.—
Baltimore Sun Editorial Board,
Orlando Sentinel,
25 Jan. 2025
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Like Fuhrman, many were nervous about teachers fumbling over technology and classmates not paying attention.—
Daniel Miller,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Jan. 2025
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The boob tube, and the mass dumbification its name implies, is on its way back, if not already here.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
16 Jan. 2025
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Their hair was big and blond, their boobs were bigger.—
Christian Holub,
EW.com,
3 Jan. 2025
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The Eagles defense also uncharacteristically blew several coverages in Week 16, including on two of Daniels’ five touchdown passes.—
Ted Nguyen,
The Athletic,
23 Jan. 2025
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Is this a lot of hocus pocus or a computational paradigm that might blow current capabilities out of the water and make NVDA look like, well, Intel of prior years?—
Vineer Bhansali,
Forbes,
23 Jan. 2025
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The blunders were addressed afterward by Rob McIntosh, the chief people officer of Stripe, in a memo to employees shared with CNN.—
John Towfighi,
CNN,
23 Jan. 2025
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But that was just one of the city’s many policy blunders of that era.—
Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
21 Jan. 2025
Verb
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Elma Pazar Joel Anderson Age: 32 Previous Love Island series entered: Series 5, 2019 Elma entered the villa alongside Maura Higgins as a bombshell, only to be booted out mere days later.—
Charley Ross,
Glamour,
17 Jan. 2025
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The stock, which was booted from the Dow in November, is still down more than 50% in the last 12 months.—
Pia Singh,
CNBC,
17 Jan. 2025
Noun
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After some miscues earlier in the game, Jackson was lights-out on the Ravens’ final drive.—
Kevin Dotson,
CNN,
19 Jan. 2025
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But a few special teams miscues and a relentless fourth-quarter blitz by Kansas City were a major factor in Houston’s 23-14 loss.—
Zak Keefer,
The Athletic,
18 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Elsewhere in the interview, Ferrell explained why the mysterious line flub happened.—
Wesley Stenzel,
EW.com,
12 Jan. 2025
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Those type of flubs will likely make progressive allies more nervous about his condition, and will be swarmed by political foes on the right who for years have depicted Biden as feeble.—
Phillip M. Bailey,
The Courier-Journal,
12 July 2024
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Jay Stahl This story has been updated because an earlier version included an inaccuracy.—
Taijuan Moorman,
USA TODAY,
28 Jan. 2025
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That’s not only because of the obvious inaccuracy of having scenes set in Azerbaijan or Russia with characters speaking in fluent English, but because this contributes to the stiltedness of the performances.—
Carlos Aguilar,
Variety,
24 Jan. 2025
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“Muff.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/muff. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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