as in fumbled
to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way
I boggled my first effort to make homemade pasta
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Recent Examples of boggled
The magician boggled audiences with his card tricks and fantastical illusions.
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Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE, 25 Sep. 2025
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
Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE, 25 Sep. 2025
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for boggled
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Payton fumbled on the second play from scrimmage, and the Patriots recovered at the Bears' 19-yard line.—
Adam Harrington,
CBS News,
27 Jan. 2026
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To do so, the Patriots must keep enough heat off Drake Maye, who has taken 10 sacks and fumbled six times in the playoffs.—
Andrew Callahan,
Boston Herald,
25 Jan. 2026
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In a December meeting, commissioners acknowledged customers’ frustrations, but added that the winds blew down hundreds of power lines onto the dry landscape.—
Judith Kohler,
Denver Post,
27 Jan. 2026
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Others banged on pots and pans and drums, blew whistles and honked car horns.—
Nick Ferraro,
Twin Cities,
26 Jan. 2026
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Frankly, this ruined my birthday for me for the next forty years.—
Gaby Iori
January 27,
Literary Hub,
27 Jan. 2026
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Knowing what not to wash together can save plenty of headaches (and ruined garments and linens) down the line.—
Jamie Cuccinelli,
Martha Stewart,
27 Jan. 2026
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Tragically, one hatchling died during heavy snowfall, but two — dubbed Sunny and Gizmo — survived the harsh season, spread their wings and flew away.—
Clara Harter,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Jan. 2026
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More than 3,000 federal immigration personnel have been deployed to Minneapolis since December in what the administration has dubbed Operation Metro Surge.—
Marlene Lenthang,
NBC news,
24 Jan. 2026
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James Folta Talks to Bookseller Angela Schwesnedl Angela Schwesnedl from Moon Palace Books in Minneapolis picked up my phone call on Saturday almost two hours to the minute after Alex Pretti was murdered in the street by ICE officers.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Jan. 2026
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Eger watched her parents taken away to the gas chambers where more than a million people, primarily of Jewish descent, were murdered.—
Linda Mcintosh,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Jan. 2026
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“Boggled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boggled. Accessed 30 Jan. 2026.
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