have bungled
- present perfect of bungle.
Example Sentences
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One explanation gaining ground is that, with the best of intentions, we grown-ups have bungled the task of teaching kids to read.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 17, 2023
Prosecutors claimed the mismatch came from a clerical error, although the crime scene investigator was later found to have bungled other major cases.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 25, 2021
Hawley may have bungled the rollout of his own book, but it looked like he helped buoy the sales of someone else’s.
From New York Times ● Jan. 13, 2021
But Louisiana may have bungled this case so badly that Roberts feels he has no choice but to uphold precedent, at least for now.
From Slate ● Mar. 4, 2020
You must have bungled, and raised a scandal About your ears, that might well have shamed The rudest Hun, the veriest Vandal, Long or ever the bird was tamed.
From Poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon by Clarke, Marcus Andrew Hislop
