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Recent Examples of duffer
For many enthusiasts, these innovations make the game more appealing and even addictive, enabling duffers on public courses to command drives and putts that golfers floundering on the sandy Scottish links more than 600 years ago could never imagine.
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Miles Corwin, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 June 2025
Finally, and a must for a duffer like me, is a quirky little nine-hole golf course — Chula Vista — that’s monstrously hilly, twisting, tree-and-ravine-laden, with impossible slanting greens.
—Andy Shaw, Chicago Tribune, 5 Apr. 2025
Not candlelight dinners for two old duffers plodding along, but an act of kindness so needed, especially during rough times.
—Bulletin Board, Twin Cities, 6 Oct. 2024
Plenty a duffer who opposed the invasion of Iraq and the privatization of Social Security has gone on to invoke the line in admiring jest.
—Ben McGrath, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
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Miles Corwin, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 June 2025
Finally, and a must for a duffer like me, is a quirky little nine-hole golf course — Chula Vista — that’s monstrously hilly, twisting, tree-and-ravine-laden, with impossible slanting greens.
—Andy Shaw, Chicago Tribune, 5 Apr. 2025
Not candlelight dinners for two old duffers plodding along, but an act of kindness so needed, especially during rough times.
—Bulletin Board, Twin Cities, 6 Oct. 2024
Plenty a duffer who opposed the invasion of Iraq and the privatization of Social Security has gone on to invoke the line in admiring jest.
—Ben McGrath, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for duffer
Noun
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The stumblebum energy disarms us, which makes the gruesome cruelty of the kills that much more disturbing.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
27 Feb. 2026
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As opposed to palookas and has-beens and tin cans and stumblebums, a player who got waived departed with his dignity intact.—
Joe Queenan,
WSJ,
2 Nov. 2018
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Their simulations showed that Earth’s orbit could expand enough to remain beyond the sun’s maximum size during both the red giant and AGB phases.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
20 June 2026
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Training data for robots is slow, physical, and expensive, often requiring human teleoperation or imperfect simulations that struggle with real-world messiness.—
Robert J. Szczerba,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2026
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The league’s most popular player has become its biggest lout.—
Assistant Sports Editor,
Los Angeles Times,
8 June 2026
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There’s a maddening human truth tucked into the fact that everyone — from Lebedev’s forceful, hopeful young daughter Sasha (Maya Shoham) to the lout Borkin, whom Labbadia embodies irresistibly as a kind of Bronx-y hustler — is drawn to this man in free fall.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
23 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Recycled pop bottles are made into carpets and seat linings, and cotton shoddy—used to make blue jeans—is recycled and turned into sound insulation.—
Katherine LaGrave,
Condé Nast Traveler,
20 July 2018
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Only traditional organic feeds such as the shoddy are allowed—
Craig Ballinger,
Slate Magazine,
20 Mar. 2017
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The Dallas Cowboys players, and coaches, all love the changes recently made to AT&T Stadium, and come August, the name will go back to its original, the grass will be replaced by a synthetic, and expect the tint in the windows to be removed, too.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
18 June 2026
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Leather gloves should never be soaked or machine washed, while cotton, synthetic, and rubber gloves each have specific care methods.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
8 June 2026
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In a case pending in federal court in Oakland, California, three Facebook users allege that the company profits from online swindles at the expense of users.—
David Ingram,
NBC news,
12 May 2026
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Supporting characters add to the plot, as Chance needs help from his former crew, most of whom have gone straight but can’t resist the lure of the swindle.—
Oline H. Cogdill,
Sun Sentinel,
28 Apr. 2026
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“Duffer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/duffer. Accessed 24 Jun. 2026.
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