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also bogie
or bogy
1
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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2
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
Juszczyk came away with no points in Friday’s opening round (eight pars, six bogeys, four double bogeys).
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Cam Inman, Mercury News, 12 July 2025
Singh played the front nine 7-over between the first two days — seven bogeys, a double bogey and one birdie — while playing the back 3-under.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 27 June 2025
Cristie Kerr wins the U.S. Women’s Open by making only two bogeys over her final 45 holes.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2025
Meanwhile, Cink carded four birdies and two bogeys in the opening round for a 68, but improved the next day with five birdies and one bogey (66).
—Julio Cesar Valdera Morales, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 June 2025
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Cam Inman, Mercury News, 12 July 2025
Singh played the front nine 7-over between the first two days — seven bogeys, a double bogey and one birdie — while playing the back 3-under.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 27 June 2025
Cristie Kerr wins the U.S. Women’s Open by making only two bogeys over her final 45 holes.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2025
Meanwhile, Cink carded four birdies and two bogeys in the opening round for a 68, but improved the next day with five birdies and one bogey (66).
—Julio Cesar Valdera Morales, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bogey
Noun
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Anyone who has broken in a pair of sandals knows the dread of a blister after a day of walking, but that’s not an issue with this pair.—
Jacqueline Tempera,
People.com,
16 July 2025
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As the anniversary of Will’s disappearance approaches, so does a heavy, familiar dread.—
James Hibberd,
HollywoodReporter,
16 July 2025
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In the present, Belly whips the bracelet Jere brought her back from Cabo across the room and shuffles around campus like a ghost, seeing visions of him everywhere.—
Sara Netzley,
EW.com,
16 July 2025
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Also, the fact that Ken gets cursed by a crazy old ghost actually helps Momo in her alien abduction predicament, with Momo’s newfound spiritual abilities helping to curb Ken’s curse.—
Ollie Barder,
Forbes.com,
13 July 2025
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They are professedly based on hunches that the enemy will attack, occupy or conquer at some future time unless the enemy is obliterated.—
Bruce Fein,
Baltimore Sun,
24 July 2025
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Iris and Isaac’s idyll is interrupted by the enemy of all great budding romances: the truth.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
23 July 2025
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This wealthy municipality west of Lisbon was a turn-of-the-century haunt for aristocrats in search of its therapeutic thermal waters, before finding wartime fame in the 1940s as a den of espionage on both sides thanks to Portugal’s neutrality.—
Zoë Dare Hall,
Forbes.com,
18 July 2025
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The bar, once a haunt of the dean of Los Angeles food writing Jonathan Gold, closed in 2024.—
James Powel,
USA Today,
10 July 2025
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It was emptied of us and, therefore, full of dunes and demons, bogs and bleeding trees.—
Devon Walker-Figueroa,
The New York Review of Books,
3 July 2025
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Things become messy when a popular rival boy band – The Saja Boys – are revealed to be demons.—
Laura Sirikul,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2025
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And in May, reporting revealed the charity had dropped commitments to housing and homelessness nonprofits, including many focused on MAGA’s biggest bugaboos: racial equity and economic inclusion.—
Max Taves,
Mercury News,
11 July 2025
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And so far, Edmonton’s biggest bugaboo, goaltending, has held steady.—
Steve Conroy,
Boston Herald,
30 May 2025
Noun
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Early risers will beat beachgoers to find coquinas, false angel wings, conch, murexes, scallops, tulip shells, and more.—
Gabi De la Rosa,
Southern Living,
24 July 2025
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Other Estonian angel investors who have previously backed Lightyear also participated in the funding round, including Wise co-founder Taavet Hinrikus, Checkout.com's former Chief Technology Officer Ott Kaukver and Skype founding engineer Jaan Tallinn.—
Ryan Browne,
CNBC,
24 July 2025
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Climate change, poverty, the savaged middle class, plagues and the rise of A.I. need to be faced now with far more vigor than when they were first realized back in my youth.—
Lizz Schumer,
People.com,
16 July 2025
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What’s the difference between bubonic and pneumonic plague?—
Lauren J. Young,
Scientific American,
15 July 2025
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“Bogey.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bogey. Accessed 31 Jul. 2025.
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