Example Sentences

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Given the current state of AI and agents’ high-profile mess-ups, Palantir’s slop focus isn’t ungrounded in facts.

From Barron's • May 6, 2026

The new update still produced some single-word mess-ups, while the older software had more gibberish phrases.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

No room for mess-ups, and if you do, the show must go on.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 29, 2023

“So the mess-ups we’ve seen this past week,” he added, “I think we’re going to see over and over and over again.”

From New York Times • Mar. 7, 2018

It let me listen to myself, so I could correct mess-ups and smooth out the hard sections.

From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper