How To Use Botched In A Sentence
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We must have botched the first task, because we've certainly bungled the second.
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It is a silly idea and he has botched it.
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We talked earlier about the computer marketing firm that had badly botched one of its first major corporate sales.
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Once primarily limited to intergang violence, the bloodshed of the city’s drug trade began spilling onto the streets of the border city in July 1997, when, at the age of forty-two, Amado Carrillo Fuentes died during a botched cosmetic surgery procedure in Mexico City, supposedly designed to change his appearance to evade law enforcement.
THE DAUGHTERS OF JUÁREZ
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The actor botch botched ( ie forgot or stumbled over ) his lines.
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I am useless when it comes to subterfuge or breaking rules and I botched the entire mission right royally.
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We botched our first attempt at wallpapering the bathroom.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) - Authorities say a 95-year-old Las Vegas woman has died of injuries she suffered when she was attacked in a botched purse-snatching outside a supermarket.
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In the opener, they meet a family who lost a fortune after a builder botched a job and fled with the cash.
The Sun
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But after eight years of a botched military solution that has cost the United States hundreds of billions of dollars, thousands of lives and no appreciable decrease in adherents to terrorist organizations, I think it’s well past time that we closed the book on the “post-9/11 mentality.”
The Detroit Bomber and the Post-9/11 Mentality | Heretical Ideas Magazine
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Caught in a whirlwind of high times, hard drugs and harder comedowns, the singer made a botched suicide attempt and began to overdose on a regular basis.
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He tried to jump over the rail,but he botched it and twisted his ankle.
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BUNGLING firemen blasted an escaped red panda 40ft out of a tree in a botched rescue bid.
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Second, a more plausible critique of eurozone diplomacy says that the deal is botched.
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She botched up the job thoroughly.
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TALLAHASSEE | An investigator has been fired and four other Tallahassee police officers were suspended without pay for two weeks for their roles in a botched drug sting that led to the death of a young informant.
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The club had a dropped pass on a flea flicker, a botched fake punt in its own territory and a halfback option pass intercepted in the end zone in its first four games.
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But he botched the job.
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The 23-year-old claims cops botched their investigation into her disappearance at the age of ten.
The Sun
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A lousy musical performance would be problematic; but a botched dance move would be complete and total career suicide, as the expression of wall-eyed panic on her face clearly illustrated.
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The problem is, he's not a very good one, and finds himself in the clink after a botched attempt to steal a car.
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It is incontrovertibly a blooming great tune and it lies buried in the bubble wrapping of a botched piano concerto.
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He's apologizing for what he calls a botched joke and he says he regrets saying anything negative about those in uniform.
CNN Transcript Nov 2, 2006
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Comin 'received terrific reviews and strong sales, despite Earle's claim that the label botched the album's song sequence.
Undefined
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As he goes through the daily grind of meetings he has the horror of botched operations or shoddy care still in his mind.
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The only loosening occurs with a late botched suicide attempt, the result of depression after Cissy's death.
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Cheaper, botched fakes were sold or sharewared to low-level gangs of boodler wannabes.
The Hacker Crackdown
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The Grammy winner, 30, botched the lyrics, mistakenly singing "what so proudly we watched, at the twilight's last reaming" instead of "o'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming.
Christina Aguilera Fumbles the Lyrics, Black Eyed Peas Light Up Super Bowl XLV
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The roll of shame includes medics who made fatal misdiagnoses, botched operations, fiddled expenses and attempted theft.
The Sun
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But since the botched operation it's been just cuddles.
The Sun
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The builders really botched up our patio.
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The Republican party is in a rage so violent that it looks like a repeated, botched attempt at hari-kari.
Michael Brenner: For Whom Does the Bell Toll?
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We all know that operations can be botched and drugs can fail; but we also suspect that delay is not good for us.
Times, Sunday Times
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The funding was withdrawn after they botched up the first stage of the research.
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The ensuing litany of botched deals, double-crosses and macho showdownery is complicated and, ultimately, exhausting.
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He tried to repair my computer,but he really botched it up.
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To understand just how far astray an institution can go in the name of modernization and expansion, one need only consider the recent botched redesigns of New York's Morgan Library & Museum and Brooklyn Museum.
Modernizing the Academy
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Eve ( Bell ) is a sexy assassin who kills without remorse - until one botched hit changes everything.
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You suspect that they probably had a good old gossip about how the blokes botched up the Brexit referendum.
Times, Sunday Times
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A botched promotional campaign offering free trips allowed passengers to take the company for a ride and a problematic payment system led to rejected credit cards.
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It's like being a botched car with good paintwork.
Times, Sunday Times
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Still it made him tired, unaccountably so, weary of travel and botched plans, filled with a mopish longing for the journey to end, not just in Urumchi, but the entire expedition back to Hong Kong, back to Taipei, and then the long transpacific flight back to the United States and his inevitable return to Red Bud, Illinois.
Heaven Lake
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Either there's an editorial boo-boo in the second paragraph or I'm guessing someone really botched the Thanksgiving dinner at the White House! steve
Pres. Obama cheers on brother-in-law at basketball game
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The programme is still in its infancy, but already the implementation of smart meters seems rather botched.
Times, Sunday Times
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Every ounce of charm had been removed in a botched 1950s remodel.
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The racial epithet is a botched way of advancing a deep ideological necessity for Al Qaeda: to keep its narrative going, Zawahiri has to define Obama as not authentically American.
You Hurt Yourself | ATTACKERMAN
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The funding was withdrawn after they botched up the first stage of the research.
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The mechanic tried to repair my car, but he really botched it up.
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Another possibility is that it intended to provide a warning, but botched the job.
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Here's a blogging award-winner, suggesting "a few minutes of combustive companionship in a two-seater" for another blogger who dared call for a "rational and measured" response to the botched bombing.
Muslims
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But his reign will be remembered for a string of costly, high-profile botched operations.
The Sun
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Prosecutors said the alleged military death squad mistakenly killed 15 civilians during a botched raid at a neighborhood barbecue in Lima.
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She could have been saved had the rescue not been botched.
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These failures caused the stimulus enacted in February 2009 to be botched in both in its design and its administration, resulting in the discrediting of deficit spending as a response to depression.
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But he botched the job.
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If it is the latter, the botched rescue of the troubled bank will be remembered as its symbol.
Times, Sunday Times
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Late on the evening of June 20, just thirteen days after the botched rescue, four boats slipped away from berths at the navy pier in Zamboanga City and steered north along the coastline.
Jihadists in Paradise
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Mobley initially was charged with murder by York police, but 16th Circuit Solicitor Kevin Brackett dropped the charge soon after lamenting what he called a botched investigation by the department.
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He tried to repair my computer,but he really botched it up.
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The mechanic tried to repair my car, but he really botched it up.
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Our senior commissioning editor had flagged at least one place where a table had been botched in the printout.
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He was leading after five events, but botched his floor exercise in the final rotation.
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She could have been saved had the rescue not been botched.
Times, Sunday Times
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The tone veers from serious to comic horror at this point and encompasses several botched (and occasionally very funny) attempts to exorcise the ghost.
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The Google accord may make Yang more vulnerable in a proxy fight against billionaire investor Carl Icahn, who says Yang botched the Microsoft negotiations.
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And the few cases where the government had real evidence have been badly botched.
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All the charges stem from Conoline's refusal to cooperate with an investigation into a botched Dec. 7 drug bust.
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United botched yet another deal and threw millions down the drain.
The Sun
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We all know that operations can be botched and drugs can fail; but we also suspect that delay is not good for us.
Times, Sunday Times
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Following a 40-minute rain delay, Robinson Cano slashed a double to left, then stole third on a botched pickoff attempt.
Jeter Tallies Four Hits in Win
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But he botched the job and survived.
Paul VI - The First Modern Pope
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The stupid thief labeled the bag in a permanent marker, one of those botched jobs that I'm sure she'll regret.
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He completely botched up the interview.
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Do the benefits (slightly lower rates of penile cancer, eliminating the risk of phimosis, smaller risk of HIV contraction though that can be greatly minimized with condom use) outweigh the risks (a botched circumcision, somewhat less penile sensitivity)?
Just a Bit Off the Top
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Her blonde hair may be a slightly botched job from a dodgy salon in Cannes, but she doesn't like her roots showing.
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The task might have been botched by a less savvy salesperson, who might have treated it like just another sales call.
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Botched handiwork by incompetent tradesmen is costing Britons millions of pounds, a new survey claims today.
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He emerged from the foothills of a botched coup neurotic about the whisperers.
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It will face some difficulties, not least because it has been, and will probably continue to be, so badly botched by so many along the way.
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The TNT people who botched this opportunity to create quality television are sentenced to watch endless repeats of Cletus Done Got His Hand Mangled In The Cotton Gin Agin, or whatever the hell they show on that network now.
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He was discharged in 1948 after an accident and a botched operation cost him the sight in his left eye.
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It follows the police investigation into a botched operation that has left two police officers and a key witness dead.
Times, Sunday Times
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All the charges stem from Conoline's refusal to cooperate with an investigation into a botched Dec. 7 drug bust.
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We talked earlier about the computer marketing firm that had badly botched one of its first major corporate sales.
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American officials refused to apologise for the botched raid on Syria.
Times, Sunday Times
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She hadn't written about a painter since her ill-timed Picasso profile in I939, which she thought she'd ultimately botched.
ISAAC CAMPION
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The conduct of the police in the first, clearly botched, investigation needs to be subjected to careful examination.
Times, Sunday Times
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Having botched the attempt, and learnt Cleopatra was still alive, he is supposed to have been carried to the mausoleum and winched by the women up through a window to expire after a fine speech in his lover's arms.
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They hurried, and botched the job.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's more like several mini-sequences: the botched hijacking, Brian and Dominic's square-off with the Asian punks, and their final confrontation.
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In the end, it's hard to tell if Moving Malcolm is a botched look at the pain of love, the gravity of death, or the bonds created by a retarded family member.
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Monmouth himself was captured, and executed by a headsman who botched his job.
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Recently we have seen some good developments but we have also seen some botched piecemeal developments.
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Defense lawyers are arguing that the police botched the investigation.
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The only loosening occurs with a late botched suicide attempt, the result of depression after Cissy's death.
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We begin with a violent and botched jewellery heist in downtown Tehran; then the action backtracks to show the robbers' lives, and how they got into this mess.
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The funding was withdrawn after they botched up the first stage of the research.
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I don't know what was going on today downtown - I was in the Roncesvalles Village district of Toronto this morning for an acupuncture appointment (a botched episode of planning ... they booked me in for YESTERDAY, not today ... grr ...) and the local bakeries were crammed full of people!
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She didn't get off to a good start with a botched explanation of why giving Salman Rushdie a knighthood was a bad idea.
Question Time
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You suspect that they probably had a good old gossip about how the blokes botched up the Brexit referendum.
Times, Sunday Times
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prison Thursday for what he called the sadistic killing of two students who were bound, tortured and stabbed to death in a London apartment last students after a botched burglary turned into a horrific bloodbath.
WN.com - Photown News
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A spate of ministerial resignations, followed by a horribly panicked and botched reshuffle, is another piece of evidence.
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BANGKOK—Thai police said they were searching for a fifth suspect in this week's alleged botched terrorism plot in Bangkok, while local security forces increased security checks in heavily touristed areas of the city.
Thai Police Widen Search for Iranians
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You know you've botched up the job when the only response you get to a ransom note is: yep, you can keep 'em.
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He faces 20 allegations including drinking alcohol while on call, botched surgery and bungled use of equipment.
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The victims of the botched raid also had their origins in Bangladesh.
Times, Sunday Times
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But he botched the job and survived.
Paul VI - The First Modern Pope
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As the ship came to rest half submerged on its side, yards from the coast of the island of Giglio late on Friday, anger rose among the thousands of passengers who had swum or been ferried and flown to safety over what they described as a botched evacuation by crew members who panicked.
The Guardian World News
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A police officer was shot through the shoulder while chasing a suspect after a botched raid.
Times, Sunday Times
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Now, of course, you're talking about botched jobs by those surgeons, or they may not indeed be surgeons.
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Two Latvian anarchists hold out for seven hours in a gun battle with more than 200 armed police following a botched robbery at a jeweller's shop in Houndsditch.1912 Sylvia Pankhurst, left, forms the East London Federation of Suffragettes1915 Aerial bombing comes to London with a Zeppelin raid dropping incendiaries on Shoreditch, Spitalfields, Stepney, Stratford and Leytonstone1936 The battle of Cable Street.
How power, money and art are shifting to the East End
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Everyone else needs at least five botched attempts.
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This bill attempts to deal with some of those problems, and some of those attempts represent completely botched jobs.
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Claire made an impact because she hated the conspiracy of silence: the sort of silence that had allowed her to endure an abusive childhood; the silence that meant, as a 17-year-old nursing cadet, she was tasked with laying out the body of a girl her own age who had died of septicaemia caused by a botched backstreet abortion.
Claire Rayner: A sane voice that helped people make sense of the knotty complications of their sexual lives
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They hurried, and botched the job.
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His mother has just been jailed for her part in a botched robbery.
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We must have botched the first task, because we've certainly bungled the second.
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The conduct of the police in the first, clearly botched, investigation needs to be subjected to careful examination.
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Most of the victims were killed during a botched rescue attempt.
Times, Sunday Times
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The programme is still in its infancy, but already the implementation of smart meters seems rather botched.
Times, Sunday Times
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The 23-year-old claims cops botched their investigation into her disappearance at the age of ten.
The Sun
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At first hand it was a testament to the marvels of medical science; botched experiments and bad reactions of the recent kind are an extreme, almost freakish, rarity.
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I told him the literal translation, but knew he would find it too wordy compared to the English phrase, and this was evident in his botched attempt to say it himself.
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He declined to comment on suggestions that the first attempt had been botched.
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The botched banquet is a mortifying experience, and in my time I have served squid cooked until it had the texture, nutritional value and masticatory pleasure of a big rubber band.
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Thousands of women are infertile as a result of botched abortions.
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Black cops and lawyers in Westchester County decried what they described as a "botched" investigation.
Phillip Martin: DJ Henry and the Training of Police, Part Four
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We have five users that are taking invites, and we have one other that we are sure will be on and will be taking game requests. mclazyj - That would be me, the writer everyone likes to call crazy, Joe Haygood aeropause - That would be our fearless leader, Shane Whitehouse. tawspot - This is a reader that is helping us out with the game night, Terry Wenz snyderunc - Many may already know Snyder as the man with a botched up first name.
Aeropause Games
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We botched our first attempt at wallpapering the bathroom.
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Last weekend's conference was a botched attempt to clear the decks for such a platform.
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Two Latvian anarchists hold out for seven hours in a gun battle with more than 200 armed police following a botched robbery at a jeweller's shop in Houndsditch.1912 Sylvia Pankhurst, left, forms the East London Federation of Suffragettes1915 Aerial bombing comes to London with a Zeppelin raid dropping incendiaries on Shoreditch, Spitalfields, Stepney, Stratford and Leytonstone1936 The battle of Cable Street.
How power, money and art are shifting to the East End
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Botched proportions, crude swing-hinge ‘Georgian’ windows and clumsy joinery are the norm.
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He tried to repair my computer,but he really botched it up.
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The botched raids came after a suspect gave police a phoney address.
The Sun
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He tried to jump over the rail,but he botched it and twisted his ankle.
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Was this a calculated snub of Europe -- since snubs of Europe still seem to fire up the type of people who think Sarah Palin is a jim-dandy candidate for VP -- or at least a calculated snub gone somehow wrong, like John Kerry's botched joke?
Steve Kettmann: View From Europe: Is McCain Losing It?
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The real wedding came after two botched attempts.
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The discovery of the mass grave in October came on the heels of a report by the Army Inspector General last summer that revealed widespread problems at the nation's premier military burial ground: unmarked and mismarked graves, millions of dollars wasted in botched contracts to computerize its paper records, and at least four urns found in a pile of excess dirt.
For first time in decades, Arlington National Cemetery must bury multiple 'unknowns'
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So, basically, you post numerous articles saying the Eagles had botched the situation and would never get what they wanted for McNabb, and then when they get exactly what they wanted for McNabb, you say they got "fleeced".
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The victims of the botched raid also had their origins in Bangladesh.
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Mrs Howard said: ‘This was an unsophisticated attempt, a botched job that led in effect to Mr Thompson being rescued from the roof.’
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The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) - Mitchum plays burned-out Boston hood Eddie “Fingers” Coyle, a small-time gun-runner on the fringes of the Boston mob who finds himself facing a second prison stint for participating in a botched robbery.
John Farr: The Coolest Male Movie Star, By Farr (You'll Never Guess)
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He faces 20 allegations including drinking alcohol while on call, botched surgery and bungled use of equipment.
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After Kerry caused a firestorm this week with what he termed a botched campaign joke that Republicans said insulted current soldiers, The Associated Press was alerted to the historical comments by a former law enforcement official who monitored 1970s anti-war activities…
Think Progress » Pentagon Publicly Touts ‘Progress’ In Iraq, Secretly Acknowledges ‘Violence at An All-Time High’
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Not having replay is bad, considering the number of botched calls in the average game.
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So it suits all sides for the entire affair to be dismissed as simply a botched robbery.
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But the operation was botched, so she had more surgery in 2006 to correct it.
The Sun
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Two Latvian anarchists hold out for seven hours in a gun battle with more than 200 armed police following a botched robbery at a jeweller's shop in Houndsditch.1912 Sylvia Pankhurst, left, forms the East London Federation of Suffragettes1915 Aerial bombing comes to London with a Zeppelin raid dropping incendiaries on Shoreditch, Spitalfields, Stepney, Stratford and Leytonstone1936 The battle of Cable Street.
How power, money and art are shifting to the East End
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(NSCIA) and Assembly of Moslems in Nigeria (AMIN), yesterday condemned the botched attempt by a Nigerian lad, Mallam Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab, to blow up a Delta Airlines aircraft in Detroit, United States on Christmas day, blaming acts of terrorism and all forms of extreme behavioural tendencies on what it described as the prevalence of injustice in various spheres of life.
Thisday Online
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He declined to comment on suggestions that the first attempt had been botched.
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But the operation was botched, so she had more surgery in 2006 to correct it.
The Sun
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There was anger among the thousands of passengers who had swum or been ferried and flown to safety over what they described as a botched evacuation by crew members who panicked.
The Guardian World News
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In the opener, they meet a family who lost a fortune after a builder botched a job and fled with the cash.
The Sun
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Second, a more plausible critique of eurozone diplomacy says that the deal is botched.
Times, Sunday Times
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Bad taste, botched repairs and smelly dogs will all sabotage your house sale.
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He tried to jump over the rail,but he botched it and twisted his ankle.
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Instead of fixing my computer, he's botched it up completely.
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It was ordered into a frontal attack as part of a botched tank offensive. As dawn broke, survivors staggered back, ‘haggard, bloodshot-eyed, slavering and rolling their bare-teethed heads’.
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However, the most dismaying thing about this development is the lack of outright uproar and outrage, because it seems that yet another once-in-a-lifetime opportunity will end up as a botched job, for the sake of gombeen politics gone mad.
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Prosecutors said the alleged military death squad mistakenly killed 15 civilians during a botched raid at a neighborhood barbecue in Lima.
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The botched experiment led the company to the notion of "homeshoring centers" in the United States that nonetheless offer low costs to customers.
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But Microsoft's launch has been badly botched on this and other measures.
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In addition, Gaddafi's scraggly hairline was blamed on a botched hair implant sometime in 2008 or 2009.
Gaddafi is ecccentric but the firm master of his regime, Wikileaks cables say
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I botched the dinner and we had to eat out
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The victims of the botched raid also had their origins in Bangladesh.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was the government that so badly botched the rescue operations.
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Quite decent things, hopelessly botched, needing to be made clean again.
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Having hit an obstacle placed in the road, they were shot dead in what appears to have been a botched robbery.
Times, Sunday Times
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This was rough stuff: a botched execution left one ex - bishop to cook more painfully than normal.
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At-home hair coloring used to be a risky undertaking: Too often, hair ended up looking like a botched science experiment.
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A botched kidnapping brings together a disparate group of characters in this Norwegian black comedy.
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The others were beheaded first; her executioner botched her beheading and left her to endure a three-day death.
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He was tipped for megastardom but, unlike his two legendary disciples, he all but disappeared, sidetracked by drink and drugs, botched love affairs and a lusty appetite for violence.
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Thirty years on from its botched original release, Ivan Passer's note-perfect, sun-splashed neo-noir thriller Cutter's Way has slowly fought its way up from cult obscurity.
Cutter's Way is a cinematic masterpiece
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FYI Colombia performed a botched Tummy Tuck and I had to go into emergency revision surgery in the U. S. I had two potential fatal infections and I also had a drain that was removed from my body.
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So unpopular has their botched plan become that not a single force met the absurdly short deadline.
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It is a silly idea and he has botched it.
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In the latest example, Tony had to step in and place Paulie Walnuts in charge of a cigarette hijacking operation that Christopher apparently botched.
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Mobley initially was charged with murder by York police, but 16th Circuit Solicitor Kevin Brackett dropped the charge soon after, lamenting what he called a botched investigation by the department.
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com - Front
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I tried to cook a nice dinner,but I'm afraid I've rather botched it up.
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She could have been saved had the rescue not been botched.
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But it's also fine to query as to what people think Voltaire meant ... and whether, in fact, Barack's "botch" is really one, or whether the general understanding of Voltaire's proverb is botched.
What's the most famous Barack Obama quote?
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About 8 a. m. Monday, he abducted Roswell during a botched robbery at a Texarkana veterinary clinic, authorities said.
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United botched yet another deal and threw millions down the drain.
The Sun