How to Use mismanage in a Sentence

mismanage

verb
Definition of mismanagenext
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  • Fans still call for his ouster every time the Ravens blow a lead or mismanage the game clock, but that’s part of the gig.
    — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 18 Jan. 2024
  • There’s a handful of banks that were mismanaged, but largely, banks are in very strong health.
    — Bywill Daniel, Fortune, 22 June 2023
  • Restrepo says that the three species of bluefin tuna have all been horribly mismanaged in the past.
    — Jean Trinh, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2023
  • Biden said Trump blew up the national debt and mismanaged the pandemic.
    — The Arizona Republic, 27 June 2024
  • The money was found bilked from the government’s coffers and mismanaged.
    — Faustine Ngila, Quartz, 6 Apr. 2023
  • He has been blamed for mismanaging the bullpen, mucking up the lineup and failing to put this team in a position to succeed.
    — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2023
  • He has been blamed for mismanaging the bullpen, mucking up the lineup, and failing to put this team in a position to succeed.
    — Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Advocates for those detained say the jail is mismanaged and needs to be discarded.
    — Ben Brasch, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Catherine Engelbrecht, the founder of True the Vote, has argued for more than a decade that mismanaged voter rolls have led to widespread voter fraud.
    — David Gilbert, WIRED, 31 July 2024
  • Democrats responded by saying Youngkin had mismanaged the proposal from the start.
    — Stephen Whyno, Fortune, 28 Mar. 2024
  • As much as 22% of all plastic waste is mismanaged and ends up as litter, with large amounts eventually making it into the oceans.
    — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 17 Apr. 2023
  • In 2020, the partners accused Snyder of mismanaging the team’s finances.
    — Ken Belson, New York Times, 20 July 2023
  • There should be an awareness that there is a risk of mismanaging human capital.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
  • On the other, this stop on the star’s Hot Girl Summer tour was woefully mismanaged at times and felt increasingly repetitive as the night wore on.
    — Jim Harrington, The Mercury News, 24 June 2024
  • Iran and Russia are also mismanaging the Caspian Sea, which has been steadily sinking and reached a critical low in 2022.
    — Devika Rao, theweek, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Only days ago the pair called out Mr. Netanyahu for mismanaging the war and not providing a political endgame.
    — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 May 2024
  • If the provider is being mismanaged, the court could also appoint a trustee to operate it while in bankruptcy, officials said.
    — Dave Altimari, Hartford Courant, 6 Mar. 2024
  • The exchange only increased my feeling that the whole thing was mismanaged and unjustified.
    — Karla L. Miller, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Abdul also mismanaged her time onstage, turning to video elements that chomped up too much of the already slim 30-minute set, and said some really bizarre stuff to fans.
    — Jim Harrington, The Mercury News, 4 July 2024
  • There’s no doubt that some female and minority leaders are held back and/or mismanaged.
    — Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
  • Four years ago, amid a pandemic, a recession and the discord that followed George Floyd’s murder by police, many voters blamed Trump — if not for causing the crises, at least for mismanaging them.
    — Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2024
  • Trump will almost surely blame Biden for allowing a surge of migrants at the southern border, claim he's caused inflation and mismanaged foreign conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza .
    — Sarah Beth Hensley, ABC News, 24 June 2024
  • Coleman filed for bankruptcy in 1999 and eventually took his mother to court over claims that his estate was being mismanaged.
    — Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 1 Sep. 2024
  • Until there is peace and a stable government that does not squander the country’s resources and grossly mismanage the economy, there is no incentive for people to stay.
    — John Prendergast, Foreign Affairs, 23 Jan. 2017
  • An investigation by the Haitian senate found that 1.7 billion U.S. dollars disbursed over eight years had been grossly mismanaged or stolen.
    — Marlene L. Daut, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2023
  • From the use of excessive force and poorly vetted officers to red tape and mismanaged funds, law enforcement organizations across the globe have their fair share of problems.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 10 Jan. 2024
  • O’Keefe was forced out of the nonprofit in February under a cloud of allegations of workplace misconduct and mismanaged funds.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Cloud resources can easily sprawl, are often mismanaged and sometimes fail to deliver on their promise.
    — Laurent Gil, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
  • The hospital, Gardner said, had mismanaged its billing process, hadn’t updated its prices since 2018, and failed to credential new clinicians with insurance plans.
    — Markian Hawryluk, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2023
  • That one of these precious few was immediately trashed by critics who didn’t understand it and mismanaged by a company that was too scared to court controversy, is a shame.
    — Juan Barquin, IndieWire, 15 July 2024

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