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Recent Examples of boo-boo When Cody trips and falls in the grass, his friends band together to comfort him and get him a bandage for his boo-boo. Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 9 May 2025 Junior Colson made a large rookie boo-boo, hitting a sliding Maye late. Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Dec. 2024 The Sun newspaper reports that Robinson made the boo-boo Friday morning during the BBC’s flagship current affairs radio show The Today Programme. Caroline Frost, Deadline, 19 Oct. 2024 In his first start in two weeks, Marc-Andre Fleury survived a first-shift boo-boo and made 28 saves to improve to 4-0-1. Michael Russo, The Athletic, 21 Nov. 2024 The Sun newspaper reports that Robinson made the boo-boo Friday morning during the BBC’s flagship current affairs radio show The Today Programme. Caroline Frost, Deadline, 19 Oct. 2024 Advertisement The ‘biggies’ Here are the big boo-boos that justify packing up your pruners for the day and going inside for a timeout. Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 May 2024 And because blue cats were purposely introduced in Virginia decades ago to boost recreational fishing opportunities, nobody wants to talk about how that was ultimately a boo-boo. Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 16 Nov. 2023 Place the 100% cotton bear in the freezer, then remove it when your little one needs to cool off or has a boo-boo. Amanda Crane, Health, 14 Aug. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for boo-boo
Noun
  • Jamie Moraga, Franklin Revere NO: San Diego’s roads are in dire condition after years of deferred maintenance; drastically cutting the road-repair budget now would be a serious mistake.
    Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 May 2025
  • Honeywell has learned from its mistakes, delivering a sensible forecast during its April 29 quarterly earnings report.
    Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 9 May 2025
Noun
  • The show’s main blunder is that instead of unpacking the various angles of the mob bosses’ corruption, random side stories start popping up.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 15 May 2025
  • But the internal investigation promised by department leaders — a probe of what accounted for the delays and blunders — seemed to go nowhere.
    Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2025
Noun
  • Garcia, who denies gang membership, had an immigration court order protecting him from deportation, which the administration acknowledged was an administrative error.
    Bart Jansen, USA Today, 15 May 2025
  • Betts grounded into a fielder’s choice and reached via an error on a should-have-been 6-3 putout.
    Benjamin Royer, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2025

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“Boo-boo.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boo-boo. Accessed 22 May. 2025.

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