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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Analysts agree that the company bungled its response to the crisis.
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Officers have bungled a number of recent criminal cases.
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The plan seemed simple enough, but the CIA managed to bungle the operation.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Attempts to catch the elusive Sirven have undoubtedly been bungled.
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Birns blames much of the conjecture and confusion on the bungling of government investigators.
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Call it another case of bureaucratic bungling.
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He nearly bungled a punt in the first half.
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Joint interests could cause you more concern than anything else and you may feel that a partner has bungled matters here.
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Since returning from his Easter break in Florida he has bungled and backtracked even in his fief, the Senate.
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The evidence that the television arrangements were bungled is incontrovertible.
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Too many discharges, bungled grievances, unreturned phone calls.