as in fumbles
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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Verb
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Tensions between the galley and the interior continue to escalate over lunch service, when a radio mishap fumbles the order in which the food should go out.
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The movie fumbles the chance to do something arresting with this seminal period in art.
Noun
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Margaret left and came back in a new bra, the straps of which could be hooked together into an X across her back to draw her boobs toward the center of her chest.
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Her legs weren't as shapely; her knees were chubby; her thighs too thick; her boobs not large enough.
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Dominic Zvada boots a 31-yard field goal to give the Wolverines the lead.
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The miscues, manager John Schneider said, need to be minimized.
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Atlanta scored 20 points off those miscues and dominated the paint, finishing with 60 points inside.
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On his best nights, when the velocity and command combine, Sasaki blows past batters with a triple-digit fastball and cutting off-speed pitches.
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And now, these Sixers are a team that can seemingly stand in the middle of the ring and trade blows with anyone in the Eastern Conference.
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Sometimes this was committed to good, such as the Marshall Plan and the Peace Corps, and sometimes to ill, as in a series of military blunders meant to quash godless Communism.
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Colorado's rally offset a pair of baserunning blunders that ended the eighth.
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Meta has countered that Wynn-Williams violated her agreement and wrote a book filled with inaccuracies.
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Datasets with issues like poor formatting, inaccuracies, inconsistencies, biases and duplicates are inherently bad.
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If cooking dinner every night feels repetitive and exhausting, online grocery delivery is your ultimate solution to simplify weekly meal planning, eliminate stressful trips to the store and get fresh ingredients brought straight to your door.
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Even short trips require a lot of stuff, with multiple outfit changes a day a certainty.
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“Muffs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/muffs. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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