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Recent Examples of bloomer
Brown likes to use this fall bloomer as a 2-foot groundcover paired with prairie dropseed and butterfly weed.
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Erica Browne Grivas, Midwest Living, 1 May 2026
Columbine is an early-season bloomer with nectar-rich spurs, giving your garden a head start in spring.
—Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Miami Herald, 10 Apr. 2026
Weigela is a spring bloomer that hummingbirds love, offering clusters of flowers just as the season begins.
—Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Apr. 2026
Columbine — An early-season bloomer with nectar-rich spurs, perfect for getting hummingbird activity started in spring.
—Kansas City Star, 9 Apr. 2026
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Erica Browne Grivas, Midwest Living, 1 May 2026
Columbine is an early-season bloomer with nectar-rich spurs, giving your garden a head start in spring.
—Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Miami Herald, 10 Apr. 2026
Weigela is a spring bloomer that hummingbirds love, offering clusters of flowers just as the season begins.
—Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Apr. 2026
Columbine — An early-season bloomer with nectar-rich spurs, perfect for getting hummingbird activity started in spring.
—Kansas City Star, 9 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bloomer
Noun
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Mike Trout presumably has witnessed every possible blooper, blunder and boo-boo in 16 seasons with the woeful Angels.—
Steve Henson,
Los Angeles Times,
3 June 2026
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Hopefully, that read through will be released as an entire blooper reel.—
Reshma Gopaldas,
IndieWire,
17 May 2026
Noun
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Expect to see monkeys (both howler and white-faced), koatis, and perhaps even a leopard.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
4 Mar. 2026
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Of the four dropped catches, two were fiendishly difficult, one was eminently takeable, and one was a howler.—
Tim Spiers,
New York Times,
6 Jan. 2026
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Zoli’s lofty warehouse space continues Amant’s design sensibility, employing and elevating simple materials like concrete, brick, and wood, which, says Ebers, are visually warm and acoustically beneficial (a boon nowadays when having a conversation in a restaurant can be increasingly challenging).—
Fiorella Valdesolo,
Vogue,
11 June 2026
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Los Angeles has ordered the retrofit of brick buildings, wooden apartments and brittle concrete buildings, but hasn’t required inspections of possibly vulnerable steel skyscrapers.—
Shelby Grad,
Los Angeles Times,
11 June 2026
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And in fitting Tomlin style, Pittsburgh let a chance to wrap up the division slip away during a three-hour pratfall in the muck at Cleveland last weekend.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
3 Jan. 2026
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Bad time to host a Detroit team on a 6-2 run in series, a 10-2 streak the road, and hungry to rebound from last week’s unexpected home pratfall-loss to Minnesota.—
Greg Cote
November 6,
Miami Herald,
6 Nov. 2025
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Read on to see the beauty blunders, silly styling and overall head-to-toe outfits that these stars regret.—
Tanisha Bhat,
PEOPLE,
9 June 2026
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The base-running blunder by Alcántara, a prospect acquired in the Anthony Rizzo trade with the New York Yankees at the 2021 trade deadline, is just one example of how this team is pressing.—
Patrick Mooney,
New York Times,
8 June 2026
Noun
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Since her derby dust-up over what turned out to be big boob girl struggles, she’s been seen on the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show runway, done a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit photo shoot, and hit the SI runway during Miami Swim Week.—
Sean Joseph OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
17 June 2026
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Finding the best bras for small boobs isn’t always as simple as grabbing the smallest size on the rack.—
Malia Griggs,
Glamour,
1 June 2026
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And not to trust those results, showing examples of deepfakes, bias and rampant mistakes that will come back to bite if the students rely on the information.—
Andy Sheehan,
CBS News,
8 Dec. 2025
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The Chiefs built a dynasty on the back of their ability to overcome their own mistakes.—
Sam McDowell
Updated December 8,
Kansas City Star,
8 Dec. 2025
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This story was updated because an earlier version included an inaccuracy.—
Jay Stahl,
USA Today,
15 June 2026
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Fowler added, though, if someone wants to make a big stink about fraud without any actual evidence, that inaccuracy is the perfect sleight of hand.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
11 June 2026
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“Bloomer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bloomer. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
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