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How to use the word botched in a Sentence?

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There are a lot of bad outcomes. There are a lot of infections and a lot of botched procedures gone wrong, and patients have to come back to the United States and then have a revision of the surgery.

Nolan Perez

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It may be that the quality of care is not up to the standards that you would like. So there’s a bit of an unknown there, and then the last thing I would say is, if something goes wrong, what’s going to happen? there are a lot of bad outcomes. There are a lot of infections and a lot of botched procedures gone wrong, and patients have to come back to the United States and then have a revision of the surgery.

Nolan Perez

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You watched what happened in Afghanistan, that botched action. Why did we close Bagram’s base? Why did we allow those prisoners to get out? Why would we even close in the summer and withdraw? Why would we withdraw without bringing out all the Americans first? All of these decisions should actually be investigated, so they don't get repeated.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The booster program has been botched from day one, this is one of the most important issues for the American pandemic, and it has been mismanaged.

Eric Topol

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The last execution that I witnessed was that of Joe Wood eight years ago. We’ve talked a lot about that, the botched execution as its called. That did not go as planned. This one did, once the drugs started flowing, he went to sleep almost immediately.

Troy Haden

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

There's every possibility that Russian President Vladimir Putin will move now to effectively bisect Ukraine ; that will give Russian President Vladimir Putin enough to be able to declare a victory domestically, and allay Russian President Vladimir Putin critics that this has been a botched invasion, taking The Donbas( would be) a consolation prize, because Kyiv is now out of Russia's military grasp, but The Donbas's The Donbas.

Samir Puri

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This is Joe Biden's White House and Joe Biden's administration, we've seen how much the president loves to blame others, but when it comes to the total failures of this administration, like skyrocketing inflation, an open border with record illegal immigration, the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan and withering American strength on the world stage, Joe Biden has no one to blame but himself.

Rick Scott

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

As a result of a botched investigation this morning we are left with more questions than answers.

Darnell Crosland

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

He spoke out as you saw and he said many service members both former like myself and current believed – which is the withdrawal from Afghanistan was completely botched and no one took accountability, you have the general staff, the high brass, basically trying to pass the buck – and so he spoke out.

Tony Buzbee

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The tragic terrorist attack on U.S. servicemembers that took the lives of 13 men and women in uniform was the direct result of the Biden administration’s botched withdrawal of Afghanistan, the United States should never have put our service members in harm’s way securing the Kabul airport while the Taliban overran the rest of the city left our men and women in uniform vulnerable and allowed terrorists to plan and execute an attack.

Thom Tillis

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The city needs a scapegoat for why they botched the vaccine effort, they probably think they're embarrassed because a 22-year-old did a better job than they did.

Andrei Doroshin

Found on CNN
3 years ago

A lot of people are uncertain about...the (bank's) ability to attract new bankers, they botched up the entire Iqbal Khan situation.

Rahul Sen

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

President Trump’s characterization of his administration’s botched response to Hurricanes Irma and Maria as ‘incredibly successful’ and ‘one of the best jobs that’s ever been done’ is offensive to the families of the nearly 3,000 Americans who were killed and the countless more who suffered for months without power or running water, he ought to apologize, and Congress ought to investigate what went wrong with the Trump Administration’s response and identify steps to ensure it does not happen again.

Steny Hoyer

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

I had an abortion when I was 18 and it was a botched back-street affair, i found I could not have children. So I adopted three. They’re my life. And their children. I wanted to share that with others. Because to be adopted is the most wonderful thing in the world.

Jane Russell

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

These patients from across the country, they know us as the ‘ Botched ’ doctors. when the ‘ Botched ’ doctors show up to the door we hear [ patients ] say ‘ the ‘ Botched ’ doctors are here and now I have hope ’ …. ‘ Botched ’ is now a brand that means hope for helping Paul Nassif problem.

Terry DuBrow

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

When the ‘ Botched ’ doctors show up to the door we hear [ patients ] say ‘ the ‘ Botched ’ doctors are here and now I have hope ’ …. ‘ Botched ’ is now a brand that means hope for helping Paul Nassif problem.

Terry DuBrow

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

It’s a spinoff [ of the series ‘ Botched ’ ] … It’s the ‘ Botched ’ experience brought to people with congenital deformities or accident victims, we want people to know that the ‘ Botched ’ doctors with their ‘ Botched ’ experience and heart are applying these skills and sensibilities to people with congenital deformities. That is really what the show is about.

Terry DuBrow

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Many things went tragically wrong in Flint, and both criminal conduct and civil conduct caused harm to the families of Flint and to the taxpayers of Michigan, in Flint, Veolia and LAN were hired to do a job and failed miserably, basically botched it. They didn't stop the water in Flint from being poisoned. They made it worse.

Attorney General Bill Schuette

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Unless it's an open medical procedure subject to all the checks and balances in medical science you're going to have botched executions.

Marc Stern

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We will continue to work in the courts to hold the states accountable in order to try and prevent botched executions in the future.

Dale Baich

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If they hadn’t botched things up at the beginning, this wouldn’t have happened.

Costica Maroleanu

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable. There is no way you can tell the child that if language had been a melody, he had mastered it and done well, but that since it was in fact a sense, he had botched it utterly.

Annie Dillard, _Pilgrim at Tinker Creek_

added by anonymous
13 years ago

While technically I did not commit a crime, an impeachable offense... these are legalisms, as far as the handling of this matter is concerned it was so botched up, I made so many bad judgments. The worst ones, mistakes of the heart, rather than the head. But let me say, a man in that top job - he's got to have a heart, but his head must always rule his heart.

Richard Milhous Nixon

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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