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Recent Examples of hit-and-miss
Capaldi himself was a phenomenal Doctor, bringing that trademark blend of grizzled warrior and cosmic buffoon, but his episodes were a bit hit-and-miss.
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Richard Edwards, Space.com, 29 May 2025
On the other hand, anti-personnel drone bombing is, so to speak, a matter or hit-and-miss.
—David Hambling, Forbes.com, 30 Apr. 2025
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.
—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
Richard Edwards, Space.com, 29 May 2025
On the other hand, anti-personnel drone bombing is, so to speak, a matter or hit-and-miss.
—David Hambling, Forbes.com, 30 Apr. 2025
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.
—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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hit-and-miss
Adjective
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Trump’s weaponization of tariffs is haphazard, and so are his punishing sanctions and trade controls, causing not just a few countries to look for other currency systems.—
T. Nelson Thompson,
Baltimore Sun,
3 June 2025
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Democrats have slammed Musk's approach as haphazard and chaotic.—
Zac Anderson,
USA Today,
1 May 2025
Adjective
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Avoid long strings of random numbers, special characters or irrelevant details.—
Nick Zviadadze,
Forbes.com,
9 June 2025
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Previous studies landed on either side of the one coin: the formation was random, or that the animals deliberately took up positions that protected vulnerable animals from attack.—
Bronwyn Thompson,
New Atlas,
7 June 2025
Adjective
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Every film is exactly as Anderson intended it to be, without the hit-or-miss or ebb-and-flow nature of most directorial careers.—
Scott Tobias,
Vulture,
7 June 2025
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Other installments are more hit-or-miss, particularly in their use of cringe comedy.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
27 May 2025
Adjective
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If being entirely aimless isn’t your thing, there is a way to add a bit of structure to it.—
Cody Godwin,
USA Today,
25 May 2025
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The scenes here are clunky and don’t always move the story along — there’s an aimless but moderately funny one of Wolff speed dating.—
Jake Coyle,
Twin Cities,
24 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The Stanley Cup-holding Florida Panthers got there with Friday night’s desultory 2-0 home loss to the Maple Leafs to put their second round series at 3-3.—
Greg Cote,
Miami Herald,
18 May 2025
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The desultory attention to regional conditions compromises the book’s conclusions and recommendations.—
Suzanne Maloney,
Foreign Affairs,
10 Dec. 2019
Adjective
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State lawmakers can and should repeal the arbitrary two-year rule.—
Sakinah Tillman,
Baltimore Sun,
4 June 2025
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Officials have often shaken this number off as arbitrary, but agree military spending needs to surge from the 2 percent benchmark of the last decade, and quickly.—
Ellie Cook,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 June 2025
Adjective
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The two teens were the third and fourth adolescents under 14 to be arrested in the Bronx for killing a bystander with a stray bullet to the head within six weeks.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
5 June 2025
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Amid concerns over the possibility that that stray voltage could corrode metal, including utility equipment nearby, F.H. Paschen Ragnar Benson Joint Venture will install isolation pads to keep that stray voltage within bounds.—
Doug Ross,
Chicago Tribune,
29 May 2025
Adjective
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On a whim, Joe decides to oppose him, and recruits his fellow officers, Guy (Luke Grimes) and Michael (Micheal Ward), to help him with his admittedly slapdash campaign.—
Radhika Seth,
Vogue,
19 May 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
Cite this Entry
“Hit-and-miss.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hit-and-miss. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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