Thesaurus results for BOGEY

bogey

noun

variants also bogie or bogy

Definition of bogey

as in dread

something or someone that causes fear or dread especially without reason math and math tests have long been bogeys for many students

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as in ghost

the soul of a dead person thought of especially as appearing to living people the child believed bogeys lived in the closet

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Recent Examples of bogey Koivun would post two birdies on the back-nine, and finish with a bogey-free final round to put the icing on his breakout tournament of his very early PGA Tour career. — Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 27 July 2026 Kim's incredible performance included 12 birdies and zero bogeys, highlighted by brilliant iron play and an aggressive 24-foot birdie putt on the 18th to secure the fabled 59. — Mike Fore, Forbes.com, 25 July 2026 As Charlie tried to reach the par-5 hole in two in the decisive moment that cost him his spot in the tournament, he was disrupted by a fan’s phone shutter during his third shot and made a bogey, per The Athletic. — Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 23 July 2026 Burns was losing ground quickly on the front nine with three straight bogeys, none more damaging than a pitch to the reachable par-four fifth hole that went over the back of the green. — Doug Ferguson, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for bogey

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Noun

Sort the genuine threats from the merely unpleasant ones, and a surprising amount of everyday dread will dissipate.

— Angela Haupt, Time, 10 Aug. 2026
There is dread and sadness and also anger, not only on behalf of the usual alibi for caring about famous women’s bodies, those masses of impressionable teen-age girls, but on behalf of past and present selves.

— Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2026

Definition of dread

Noun

Crow-Armstrong’s single to center leading off the 11th sent Kelly, the ghost runner, home from second.

— Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2026
There’s ghosts, there’s futures, there’s residue in this building—there’s sweat from colonial histories that reside in brick and concrete for centuries.

— Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of ghost

Noun

The official did not provide further details on the alleged association with terror organizations.

— Aleks Klosok, CNN Money, 12 Aug. 2026
An experience that demands the big screen, featuring even more astounding effects choreography than its predecessor, Godzilla Minus Zero cranks up the terror while always keeping its post-WWII Japan narrative at human eye level.

— Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of terror

Noun

That is, until miraculous apparitions turn it into a place to be.

— Marta Balaga, Variety, 17 July 2026
The music starts to shift beginning with the third episode, when Lestat becomes overwhelmed by the apparition of his abusive maker and other ghosts, including Claudia, whose killing he’d been forced to witness firsthand.

— Hannah Giorgis Yohannes, Vanity Fair, 13 July 2026

Definition of apparition

Noun

This thing of like trying to paint a certain type or color or class of people as the enemy and the great bugaboo in America?

— Jim Ryan, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
If there’s any big bugaboo in his profile, he can be beaten by higher-end velocity, but his ability to adjust to secondary offerings keeps him afloat.

— Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 10 June 2026

Definition of bugaboo

Noun

Cooking classes, yoga lessons, meditation experiences, and live entertainment are also vacation activities that enhance the body and the spirit.

— Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 5 Aug. 2026
The rooms All are subtly and swankily music-themed in the spirit of the hotel’s strong music history (Carnegie Hall is nearly next door) and art works focusing on instruments placed throughout the property were curated by The Met.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of spirit

Noun

Friday is here and that means all you Competitive Wordle players, playing against your friends, co-workers, rivals, enemies, or against me or the Wordle Bot, must double your points, whether positive or negative.

— Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
Months turned into years, and on August 6, 1945, Kakita and his brother heard of an enemy aircraft sighting.

— Rina Nakano, CBS News, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of enemy

Noun

On the 1994 comeback album Gratuitous Sax & Senseless Violins, Sparks imagined Liberace, who died in 1987, making his own comeback in the afterlife, adored again as a phantom haunting the Earth.

— Al Shipley, SPIN, 31 July 2026
Left behind are her great-grandmother’s haunting journals detailing the story of her own phantom, and subsequently, her brutal murder.

— Jennifer Maas, Variety, 25 July 2026

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