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Recent Examples of boffo When will the exhibition business be truly boffo again? Diane Garrett, Variety, 22 Dec. 2022 Kenneth Walker III caps his amazing year with another boffo performance and Mel Tucker lays the groundwork for continued success in 2022. Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 7 Dec. 2021 November 2 was a boffo night for the Republican Party, and not such a great night for Donald Trump. Rich Lowry, National Review, 5 Nov. 2021 Expect ritualistic apologies for Monday’s outage and insanely boffo user-growth numbers. Owen Thomas, SFChronicle.com, 26 Aug. 2020 See All Example Sentences for boffo
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Adjective
  • Harry Dean Stanton is excellent.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Moisture recovery ranged from good to excellent, with morning relative humidity levels between 55% and 88%.
    CA WILDFIRE BOT, Sacbee.com, 13 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The film captures Gilmour and his terrific backing band in concert at Rome’s historic Circus Maximus near the start of the Luck and Strange tour.
    Jim Harrington, Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2025
  • But those poor souls would be missing out on a terrific whiskey that really deserves to be enjoyed.
    Tony Sachs, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • For years, those on the radical left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis and the world’s worst mass murderers and criminals.
    Chad de Guzman, Time, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Stargazing is a wonderful pursuit that appeals to both the casual and dedicated observer, but views outside of cities are often much clearer and brighter thanks to different levels of light pollution.
    Harry Bennett, Space.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Yet his work does demand greater attention.
    Mark Holgate, Vogue, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Europe staged one of the greatest comebacks in Ryder Cup history, winning eight matches and halving another to clinch the Cup by half a point.
    Tim Corlett, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The grind will continue for Campbell as he will be matched up against what was expected to be a superb Pittsburgh Steelers defense.
    Andrew Wright, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The superb first nonfiction feature from Argentinian director Lucrecia Martel focuses on the killing of an Indigenous community leader by white landowners in northwest Argentina.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 13 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • That rules, actually, that video is awesome.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • But the people there were awesome.
    Mitch Sherman, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Robbie's French twist updo would be a lovely choice for a bride, while a sky-high style like Cardi B's would be fun for a holiday party.
    Kara Nesvig, Allure, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Beautifully made, with lovely harmony, this is consistently one of the finest examples of Satèn; simply delicious, enjoy over the next three to seven years.
    Tom Hyland, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Learn from three expert instructors how to showcase your skills, build a stellar reputation, and create a digital presence that AI can't replicate.
    Ernestine Siu, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2025
  • At the start of the summer season, in June, the brightest stars of Gemini the Twins, Pollux and Castor appear side by side low in the northwest twilight, bringing up the rear of the winter stellar procession in much the same way as the twin marker lights on a caboose bring up the rear of a train.
    Joe Rao, Space.com, 15 Sep. 2025

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“Boffo.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boffo. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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