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  • noun Plural form of mishandling.

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Examples

  • However, according to Marciniak, the RECORD study had several "mishandlings" that suggested

    PRWeb - Daily News Feed 2010

  • Plenty of felicitous verbal mishandlings, a la Kamau Braithwaite, here.

    Writers on their Books of Last Year 2007

  • "Pentagon admits five acts of 'mishandling' the Koran" mishandlings of human beings were not counted

    Tuesday, May 31, 2005 As'ad 2005

  • The reader will find that our rules are quite as often violated as observed; and may perhaps conclude that if the vital difference between a defining and a non-defining clause were consistently marked, wherever it is possible, by a discriminating use of 'that' and 'which', false coordination and other mishandlings of the relatives would be less common than they are.

    'That' and 'who' or 'which'. 1908

  • And to point out they were accidental and careless mishandlings and not acts of violence in there.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local BD13 2010

  • And to point out they were accidental and careless mishandlings and not acts of violence in there.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local BD13 2010

  • And to point out they were accidental and careless mishandlings and not acts of violence in there.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local BD13 2010

  • And to point out they were accidental and careless mishandlings and not acts of violence in there.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local BD13 2010

  • You know, I don't want to hear about missteps or mishandlings by the Bush Administration anymore.

    The American Pundit 2009

  • The recession is a result of USA and international financial mishandlings.

    Top Stories - Google News 2009

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