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Recent Examples of Synonyms for boner
Noun
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The last part of the 911 call contains nothing but ear-piercing screams from two of Franklins’ sons, then aged 9 and 5, who witnessed it all.—
Nate Gartrell,
The Mercury News,
6 Feb. 2025 -
At first a distant roar, everyone’s screams were drowned out by the first of the top rally cars tearing past.—
Raphael Orlove,
Robb Report,
6 Feb. 2025
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Land of the Lost (2009) The big, fat, truly awful belly-flop on his résumé, this leaden reboot/spoof of the 1970s TV series has everything: ugly CGI; a dumb homage to A Chorus Line; crass boob jokes; Jorma Taccone playing a monkey; Matt Lauer.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
4 Feb. 2025
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Remember a few years back when boobs were declared over?—
Naomi Fry,
The New Yorker,
25 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Either their ability to spot talent is crap or Man City have had a howler.—
Pol Ballús,
The Athletic,
13 Feb. 2025
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Leno has generally been good this season but was comically poor in this one, a poor pass to Pereira followed by an inexplicable howler.—
Roshane Thomas,
The Athletic,
15 Jan. 2025
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Just like when Trump recently helped legitimize Maduro by sending White House special envoy Richard Grenell to meet with the Venezuelan dictator and pose in smiling pictures with him, Trump’s de facto abandonment of pro-democracy groups in the hemisphere is a major blunder.—
Andres Oppenheimer,
Miami Herald,
7 Feb. 2025
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Foreign policy is hard, but this is just a very big early blunder.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
5 Feb. 2025
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On Tuesday, two separate groups of FBI agents sued the administration over a request for information about FBI employees who worked on criminal investigations of Trump and of people involved in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.—
Dan Mangan,
CNBC,
6 Feb. 2025
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Trump was impeached twice during his first term—first over allegations of abuse of power regarding Ukraine and later for his role in the January 6 Capitol riot.—
Kristan Hawkins,
Newsweek,
6 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Mahomes is the career leader in playoff (11) and Super Bowl (four) fumble recoveries, all but one his own.—
Blair Kerkhoff,
Kansas City Star,
8 Feb. 2025
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Mostert is coming off his worst season (two fumbles, 3.3 per carry average) and his $4.1 million cap hit would drop to a $1 million dead money hit if he’s cut.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
3 Feb. 2025
Noun
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But at least Kristen Wiig provided reliable laughs as weirdo singing sister Dooneese.—
Judy Berman,
TIME,
17 Feb. 2025
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Will Ferrell's physical comedy still gets all the laughs on Saturday Night Live.—
Angela Andaloro,
People.com,
17 Feb. 2025
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Despite some inevitable inaccuracies and omissions, the memoir remains the best portrait of Mahler in print—an act of complex, intense devotion.—
Alex Ross,
The New Yorker,
3 Feb. 2025
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The study’s data was also self-reported, which is more prone to inaccuracies.—
Elizabeth Yuko, PhD,
Health,
31 Jan. 2025
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“Boner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boner. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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