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Recent Examples of boggle They are boggled even more when told that the Fed creating a new $10,000 out of nothing for one borrowing bank could increase the total national money supply, currency plus bank deposits, several times. Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 31 Aug. 2025 So Heisenberg took a conceptual leap that still boggles minds today. Quanta Magazine, 8 Aug. 2025 This list of Trump’s successes boggles my mind: Trump instituted the Department of Government Efficiency, which resulted in trimming 20,000 federal employees from government payrolls. Nicole Russell, USA Today, 24 July 2025 In a world where licenses and software locks forbid folks from simply plugging in a replacement component, the thought of a major company encouraging its customers to break out a soldering iron is mind boggling. Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 27 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for boggle
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Verb
  • The Giants, meanwhile, are coming off a painful defeat to the Denver Broncos, after blowing a 19-0 lead and losing 33-32 on a last-second Denver field goal after missing two PATs of their own, including one with 37 seconds left.
    Mike Jones, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2025
  • After the final whistle blew at Memorial Stadium, Kiffin made some headlines for his postgame behavior toward an Oklahoma player.
    Matt Audilet, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • He was sacked seven times and fumbled twice with both loose balls being recovered by the Bills’ defense.
    Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 27 Oct. 2025
  • But that same quarter, Kansas fumbled on a punt that K-State turned into a touchdown.
    Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 26 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Drummond's proposals to the court to sharply limit litter's use as fertilizer would amount to a ban on the practice in the river's watershed; this and the cost of removing all litter from the watershed would ruin poultry growers throughout the region, defendants argue.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2025
  • In the end, the explorers destroyed themselves and their ships and ruined the lives of so many indigenous people after setting up colonies in places like Tierra del Fuego.
    Charlie Markbreiter, Them., 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • For the party’s new leadership, running Libertarian candidates and providing an outlet for their voters’ political perspective isn’t spoiling.
    Seth Klamann, Denver Post, 26 Oct. 2025
  • The Pistons were whistled for 31 fouls, resulting in 48 Houston free-throw attempts, and still found a way to spoil the Rockets’ home opener.
    Hunter Patterson, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025

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