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: full-blown sense 2
a full-bore crisis
2
: made with maximum effort
a full-bore attempt to succeed
: with maximum effort or speed
runners sprinting full bore
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Axios, 5 Mar. 2025
Has the president decided his soaring Nielsen ratings are better than a plummeting stock market if there are full-bore tariffs placed on Mexico and Canada because of their intransigence?
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 2 Mar. 2025
Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 14 Mar. 2025
Gaga goes full bore here, playing the drums and screaming on the stage floor.
—Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 9 Mar. 2025
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Adjective
The party is in a rut, stumbling on finding the most effective counterattack to Trump's full-bore assault on the federal bureaucracy.
—Axios, 5 Mar. 2025
Has the president decided his soaring Nielsen ratings are better than a plummeting stock market if there are full-bore tariffs placed on Mexico and Canada because of their intransigence?
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 2 Mar. 2025
Adverb
Diarra was limited to 22 minutes in the quarterfinal; pushing him full bore in the first of a possible three games in three days, against Creighton Friday and possibly St. John’s Saturday, would not have been wise.
—Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 14 Mar. 2025
Gaga goes full bore here, playing the drums and screaming on the stage floor.
—Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 9 Mar. 2025
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“Full-bore.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/full-bore. Accessed 22 Mar. 2025.
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