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or doozie
also doozer
as in dream
something very good of its kind
you don't make mistakes very often, but when you do, it's a real doozy
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Recent Examples of doozy
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.
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Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 23 June 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
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
One of the researchers behind that last doozy, Dr. Gustav Nyström, and his colleague Ashutosh Sinha from the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA) have cracked a whole new way to leverage the strange and magical properties of fungal mycelium.
—Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 16 May 2025
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Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 23 June 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
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
One of the researchers behind that last doozy, Dr. Gustav Nyström, and his colleague Ashutosh Sinha from the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA) have cracked a whole new way to leverage the strange and magical properties of fungal mycelium.
—Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 16 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for doozy
Noun
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Running the largest sports media company in the world is a dream job for Pitaro, a lifelong Yankees fan who named one of his dogs Jeter (as in Derek).—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
13 Aug. 2025
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An original work set in the world of 1950s ping pong culture, the film tells the story of Marty Mauser (Chalamet), a young man with a dream no one respects, who goes to hell and back in pursuit of greatness.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
13 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Northern Canada and Alaska will have the highest likelihood of viewing the phenomenon, once the sun sets in the state.—
Ty Roush,
Forbes.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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The Gilded Age has been a true word-of-mouth phenomenon.—
Katie Campione,
Deadline,
7 Aug. 2025
Noun
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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
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This is a humdinger of a pollinator plant, attracting not only humming bees and butterflies, but a host of other insects, too.—
Joshua Siskin,
Oc Register,
24 May 2025
Noun
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The solipsism of low self-esteem is one of the wonders of the human psyche.—
Vivian Gornick,
New Yorker,
16 Aug. 2025
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Alves devoted part of that speech to the wonders of this country by providing the blessings of freedom and opportunity to people like him.—
Kevin Rennie,
Hartford Courant,
16 Aug. 2025
Noun
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With Hasan in Gaza is an aching witness to the beauty of this land and the struggle of its people, neither of which may soon be recognizable at all.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
7 Aug. 2025
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The beauty there is that since peer support is a carve-out, perhaps their AI is no longer within scope.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
7 Aug. 2025
Noun
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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
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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
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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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The final scene — a real corker — was filmed at City Hall.—
Tom Gliatto,
People.com,
26 Mar. 2025
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“Doozy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/doozy. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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