boner

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for boner
Noun
  • All day, fans have been buzzing online, daring each other to out-scream every stop before them after Yeonjun teased that some crowds weren’t loud enough.
    Crystal Bell, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Blood curdling screams and chains scraping against the ground can be heard throughout the prison.
    Paige Moore, AZCentral.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The left side of the dress featured a completely open panel that put her side boob, torso, hips and leg on full view.
    Starr Bowenbank, PEOPLE, 2 Oct. 2025
  • My boobs were smaller (before)!
    Kara Nesvig, Parents, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Howl at the moon, like your new howler, capuchin and spider monkey neighbors!
    Jennifer Leigh Parker, Forbes.com, 16 July 2025
  • On an island off Panama, male capuchins were observed repeatedly abducting baby howlers.
    Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harpers Magazine, 16 July 2025
Noun
  • Base running blunder The Tigers had a great chance to put together a big inning in the second, after Trey Sweeney hit a sacrifice fly, knocking in a run.
    Ryan Ford, Freep.com, 6 Oct. 2025
  • That blunder came one series after Slayton had a brutal drop on a 50-yard bomb from Dart that would have put the ball inside the Saints’ 20-yard line.
    Dan Duggan, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The state argued incidents that arose from the ICE facility protests in recent months have been handled by local law enforcement and have not been severe enough to be considered a riot or rebellion.
    Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025
  • In response, federal law enforcement officers have repeatedly deployed riot control measures and made several arrests.
    Rachel Wolf , Garrett Tenney, FOXNews.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Plus, Dart had a careless fumble.
    Michael Salfino, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
  • In the first half alone, FIU lost two fumbles — Devonte Lyons had the other one — had one pass intercepted and one punt deflected.
    Walter Villa, Miami Herald, 5 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In fact, the toddler's laugh can actually be heard on the record.
    Mark Gray, PEOPLE, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Like most anthologies, horror or otherwise, they can be hit or miss, though just about every one of the individual segments in the franchise is good for a scare or at least a laugh.
    A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • But Applegreen disputed that claim and argued Global Partners was promoting misrepresentations and inaccuracies.
    Chris Van Buskirk, Boston Herald, 29 Sep. 2025
  • This story was updated because an earlier version included an inaccuracy.
    Piet Levy, jsonline.com, 28 Sep. 2025
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“Boner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boner. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.

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