boner

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Noun
  • Cool Game-Day Uniforms Football matches and homecoming scream fall, and who better than Taylor Swift to prove that dressing up for game-day can be as easy as cheering on your friends from the the stands.
    Michelle Lee, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The episode recontextualizes the Gorn’s terrifying scream.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Because even though, yes, some humans are skinny with big boobs, to be human is to grow and change and fluctuate.
    Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 26 Aug. 2025
  • But look: Every boob with a T-Mobile plan will soon have more raw intelligence in their pocket than has ever existed in the world.
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 18 Aug. 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
  • Buffalo, known for end-of-half blunders in past years, scored a field goal as the first half expired after moving the ball 48 yards in three plays (including a spike).
    Mike Sando, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • As competition heated up with Walmart, Target made what may be viewed by some in hindsight a profound blunder, another case of brand amnesia.
    Greg Petro, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Johnson’s legacy feels particularly urgent as the National Park Service recently removed all references to transgender people from its New York Stonewall National Monument website, erasing the central role trans women of color played in the 1969 riots.
    Essence, Essence, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The film stages its riot of activity as hard-nosed honesty, but its portrait is ultimately as ginned-up and inexact as the fictional news broadcast’s lurid prying.
    Richard Lawson, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Jihaad Campbell played 92 percent of the defensive snaps in his NFL debut, finishing with a pass breakup and helping force a game-changing fumble.
    Zach Berman, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Miami’s next drive ended after two plays when Colts nickel cornerback Kenny Moore II blind sided Tagovailoa for a sack fumble as a free blitzer coming from the right side, Tagovailoa’s blind side.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • However, if you're pressed for time, check out the shorts Mike's New Car (2001) and Party Central (2014) for some quick laughs.
    Sydni Ellis, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Her voice has been sharp, sometimes saucy, and could be silken — then let out a bell-ringing laugh.
    Scott Simon, NPR, 6 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content.
    H. Alan Scott, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
  • For example, the comments criticize the sections on sea level rise, noting the report failed to capture the acceleration of such trends, among other inaccuracies.
    Andrew Freedman, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2025
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“Boner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boner. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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