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Recent Examples of half-cocked
His paranoia, played with clumsy charm by a mustachioed and bleary-eyed Leonardo DiCaprio, is half-cocked and somewhat comical.
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David Sims, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2025
That cycle has lasted decades, a past strewn with half-cocked plans, bankruptcies, struggling businesses, recriminations, and a neighborhood that refuses to give up on itself or surrender its personality.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 21 May 2025
And yet, all of a sudden, there was the commotion typical of when a manager walks into a room deep in a stadium as reporters rush to put their phones on the desk and stumble awkwardly, laptops half-cocked, back to their seats.
—James Horncastle, The Athletic, 30 Dec. 2024
The way reason permeated the front offices has bled onto the field, and the players are more reasonable, more rational and not likely to go off half-cocked.
—Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 25 Sep. 2024
David Sims, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2025
That cycle has lasted decades, a past strewn with half-cocked plans, bankruptcies, struggling businesses, recriminations, and a neighborhood that refuses to give up on itself or surrender its personality.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 21 May 2025
And yet, all of a sudden, there was the commotion typical of when a manager walks into a room deep in a stadium as reporters rush to put their phones on the desk and stumble awkwardly, laptops half-cocked, back to their seats.
—James Horncastle, The Athletic, 30 Dec. 2024
The way reason permeated the front offices has bled onto the field, and the players are more reasonable, more rational and not likely to go off half-cocked.
—Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 25 Sep. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for half-cocked
Adjective
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Some of the app's settings and tools are half-baked, and their Bluetooth LE Audio support isn’t perfect.—
Mark Knapp,
PC Magazine,
26 Mar. 2026
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The result has sparked major controversy since hitting Netflix, having promised viewers a vital look behind enemy lines and instead delivering a half-baked survey of Andrew Tate-era misogyny.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
19 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Ament’s lawyers are now pushing to withdraw his guilty plea, saying he’d been ill-advised by his previous counsel.—
Victoria Le,
Oc Register,
28 Feb. 2026
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But his goalie interference penalty in the opening period was ill-advised.—
Arpon Basu,
New York Times,
20 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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This can include help to contact creditors, placing fraud alerts, disputing unauthorized accounts and preparing documentation to recover your identity.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
2 Apr. 2026
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Peters, 70, is serving time for election interference for allowing unauthorized access to voting machines following the 2020 presidential election.—
Jesse Sarles,
CBS News,
2 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Placental insufficiency, in which the organ fails to develop or function properly, is a leading cause of spontaneous preterm birth, experts say.—
Sandee LaMotte,
CNN Money,
31 Mar. 2026
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That kind of flexibility leads to spontaneous nights where what started off as an intimate hang expands into an all-out party.—
Sammy Loren,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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For Caldwell, weighing the risks of his work has always felt more like a mental abstraction, an algorithm of constantly shifting variables, than an instinctive act of self-preservation.—
Namir Khaliq,
Big Think,
31 Mar. 2026
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There is a sense of the body moving through the work, leaving behind gestures that feel both deliberate and instinctive.—
Olga Garcia-Mayoral,
Miami Herald,
31 Mar. 2026
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“Half-cocked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/half-cocked. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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