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Recent Examples of dufferUnwinding with a cool glass of lemonade, the jointed old duffer in the lawn chair is simply propped in place.—Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Sep. 2022 Erickson was her boat's duffer and responsible for the map, but had been too distracted socializing.—Madison Karas, Star Tribune, 30 June 2021 Certainly there is value in showing clips of Al Michaels’ golf swing, which made every duffer feel better about his/her swing, and in breaking down clips of Phil Mickelson tossing a football (quicker release than Trey Lance).—Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Nov. 2021 Playing on the same course as some of the game’s greatest golfers can do that to a duffer like me, or any golfer, no matter their skill level.—oregonlive, 5 July 2021 See All Example Sentences for duffer
Computer simulations were having trouble explaining this movement of the streams.
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Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
25 Apr. 2025
The training center will feature simulations of places where police, firefighters and medics go — a bathroom where someone slipped and fell, a hotel and more.
Fentanyl is a potent synthetic opioid that is used for pain relief and as an anesthetic, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration website.
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Maya Wilkins,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Apr. 2025
The synthetic web, hung from the ceiling, was made with a combination of parachute cords and cords used for hair ties to mimic the two kinds of silk spiders used when spinning their webs.
There’s at least one major shoe that could drop — why devote an entire episode to the Gemstone origin story if that gold Bible isn’t going to pay off somehow? — but The Righteous Gemstones loves these grotesque, dysfunctional louts.
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Scott Tobias,
Vulture,
28 Apr. 2025
And when someone does cross the line, like the louts who doused cops in Harlem and Brownsville with water in 2019, most officers have shown remarkable restraint.
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Leonard Greene,
New York Daily News,
4 Feb. 2024
The Minnesota Supreme Court has banned Woodbury attorney Kristi McNeilly from practicing law in the state, three years after she was convicted of theft by swindle for stealing $15,000 from a man who hired her to defend him in a drug case.
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Mary Divine,
Twin Cities,
2 Apr. 2025
And last year's $30 million in romance swindles was up from 2023's $24.4 million.
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