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Recent Examples of dufferFor the first third of the 20th century even duffers had caddies and at Pinehurst that meant a Black man or boy.—Craig Gill / Made By History, TIME, 13 June 2024 Unwinding 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 See All Example Sentences for duffer
This preliminary curve was then combined with data derived from fossils of organisms living in a warm or cool environments, simulations of orbital parameters and paleogeographic models, visualizing the distribution of land and sea during different geological periods.
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David Bressan,
Forbes.com,
17 July 2025
In the remaining 20% of the simulations, the common envelope formed in the standard way without the third star contributing.
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
Meanwhile, President Donald Trump's tariff obsession represents another layer of this elaborate swindle.
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Nicholas Creel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 June 2025
Fero was charged last year with embezzling $400,000 from St. Kate’s, but reached an agreement with the prosecution and pleaded guilty to one count of theft by swindle.
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