variants or doozie also doozer

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Recent Examples of doozy There had been heel turns before, and there have been heel turns since—but this one was a doozy. James Parker, The Atlantic, 6 July 2025 Each season, Casa Amor is a doozy: the couples are split up by gender between the original villa and Casa and meet a new set of bombshells meant to test their relationships. Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 26 June 2025 In terms of culture shock, Greg Cronin is in for a doozy, going from the sunshine, beaches and traffic of Southern California to the relatively quiet winter weather and flat landscape of Des Moines, Iowa. Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 23 June 2025 Essentially a beefed-up version of its 2017 predecessor, Nintendo’s latest hardware arrives with a bona fide doozy: an open-world Mario Kart game. Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 23 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for doozy
Recent Examples of Synonyms for doozy
Noun
  • Humming Bird is a self-care dream with multiple outdoor showers and baths to relax and unwind.
    Rana Good, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Now, 32 years later, at age 60, Diana rekindles her dream of conquering this aquatic marathon, determined to face the open waters with the support of both her coach (Jodie Foster) and a team of sailors and without the protection of a shark cage.
    Alex Gurley, People.com, 31 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The phenomena tend to form on the Great Lakes from August to October, the National Weather Service said.
    Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • UAPx, a Florida nonprofit, has developed a suite of sensors specifically for analyzing odd aerial phenomena.
    Matthew Hutson, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Season 3 cranks the tension up to an 11 and ends on a humdinger of a twist.
    Allison DeGrushe Published, EW.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • And that first Game 7 in finals history, in the parlance of the day, was a humdinger.
    The Athletic NBA Staff, New York Times, 22 June 2025
Noun
  • However, Gabriel also gets to experience the wonders of being mortal, like eating burgers and chicken tenders for the first time.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Reconnecting with the beauty, awe and wonders of life within and around us informs our senses, perceptions, thoughts and actions as well as improving our well-being.
    Jessica DuLong, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • There’s a lot of beauty and thought that actually originated here.
    Vogue Runway, Vogue, 4 Sep. 2025
  • UnCruise offers countless ways to immerse in its beauty.
    UnCruise Adventures, AFAR Media, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Literally anyone who can ride a bike can hoist a beaut by pressing a little button by your throttle and ride it out until the wheels fall off or the battery dies.
    Joe Salas August 01, New Atlas, 1 Aug. 2025
  • Reinhart, who scored the game-winner in Game 7 of the Cup Final last year, opened scoring 4:36 with a beaut of an individual effort.
    Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • Based on a script by Richard Price and Alexander Ignon, Ransom is a corker of a paranoid, father’s-worst-nightmare thriller in which Gibson plays Tom, a one-percenter who discovers that his son has been kidnapped.
    Will Leitch, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Anyway, Breville doles out sales sparingly, and this little corker is $50 off for the spring sale.
    Simon Hill, Wired News, 31 Mar. 2025

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“Doozy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/doozy. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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