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Recent Examples of gaff
Noun
During a fight, birds are typically weighted and then short or long knife and gaff weapons are attached to roosters. SHARK alerted the county during the fight. Allana Smith, Freep.com, 7 Aug. 2025 But the gaff is igniting new calls for Hegseth to be ousted, including from House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.). Ellen Mitchell, The Hill, 10 July 2025 Transport boxes, electronic scales and gaffs, sharp blades that can be attached to roosters' legs during fights, were found on the property, the news statement said. Kerry Breen, CBS News, 15 Feb. 2025 Anglers need both an angling license and a recreational turtle license to harvest turtles using angling gear like hook and line, landing nets and gaff hooks. Kay Johnson, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for gaff
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gaff
Noun
  • The 49ers also made a big mistake in fielding just 10 players on the very play on which Warner was injured.
    Matt Barrows, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Conservative activists have spent the past forty-six years arguing that this was a terrible mistake.
    Emma Green, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Despite that big blunder, McMillan bounced back with his first career touchdown on the next series.
    Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Against Brent Venables’ otherwise elite defense, Arch Manning had a nicely tidy day, completing 21 of 27 passes with no major blunders and 200 total yards.
    Sam Settleman, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Hackers often use look-alike domains to trick you into thinking the site is real.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Hackers are using the messaging app Telegram and fake websites that impersonate brands to trick users into installing the malware, which will masquerade as popular apps, including TikTok, YouTube, and Google Photos.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • But things got particularly ugly in the most recent reunion episode, in which Adriana de Moura not only leaned on lesbophobic and biphobic rhetoric, but also claimed that Julia Lemigova (who is famously married to renowned TERF Martina Navratilova) has been cheating for years.
    James Factora, Them., 10 Oct. 2025
  • Then de Moura decided to drop a few bombshells of her own, accusing her former bestie of not just cheating with her but with two men.
    Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • There aren’t any obvious errors that can be laid at Darlow’s door over the past four matches.
    Beren Cross, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Sponsors assume no responsibility for any error, omissions, interruption, deletion, defect or delay in operation with transmission, communications, line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to or allegation of submissions.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Do not let the dashing green velvet suit, the yellow leather gloves, the silk cravat or the pencil-thin mustache, a tonsorial touch that suggests the matinee idols of yesteryear, fool you.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2025
  • But don’t be fooled into thinking that’s the norm.
    Jessica Coacci, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The Chiefs have been on the wrong side of fourth-quarter closeness this year (0-3 after Monday night’s slippery loss, which had to sting).
    Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The production was plagued by hurricanes, tsunami warnings, stinging jellyfish and several injuries — including Costner, who almost died while riding out a storm stranded atop a mast after his safety line had snapped.
    Peter Kiefer, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Colorado started the second period in similar fashion to the first, but Valeri Nichushkin and Cale Makar took advantage of a Buffalo gaffe to reclaim the lead.
    Corey Masisak, Denver Post, 13 Oct. 2025
  • McMillan’s early gaffe highlighted his growing pains as a rookie wide receiver.
    Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 12 Oct. 2025

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“Gaff.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gaff. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.

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