as in to blow
to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way
I boggled my first effort to make homemade pasta
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Recent Examples of boggle
The potential of what AI can do for small businesses boggles the mind.
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Contributing Writer, Orange County Register, 3 Sep. 2024
Watson’s time boggles the mind: 4.75 seconds is a tiny duration of time for any physical task, let alone ascending a 50-foot wall.
—Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 7 Aug. 2024
The combination of possible finishes and styles totals a mind boggling 763,000 options!
—Sunset Magazine, 22 July 2024
Live from the Carpet video, leading us to believe that Stone’s goal from the red carpet is to boggle our minds.
—Zoe Guy, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2024
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Contributing Writer, Orange County Register, 3 Sep. 2024
Watson’s time boggles the mind: 4.75 seconds is a tiny duration of time for any physical task, let alone ascending a 50-foot wall.
—Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 7 Aug. 2024
The combination of possible finishes and styles totals a mind boggling 763,000 options!
—Sunset Magazine, 22 July 2024
Live from the Carpet video, leading us to believe that Stone’s goal from the red carpet is to boggle our minds.
—Zoe Guy, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2024
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Without breaking stride, Hunter blew past four more Utah defenders and hopped into the end zone, a broken play transformed into a work of art.Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 16 Nov. 2024
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Oldenburg’s ode to Mies van der Rohe’s signature pocket square, the 12-foot fiberglass Handkerchief, will blow toward Park Avenue, and inside, a giant cloth saw will hug the walls and floor.Morgan Meier, Curbed, 12 Nov. 2024
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Because all that most people remember is Musk fumbling through lines while dressed as Wario.Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2024
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Buccaneers recover Rohan Nadkarni Travis Kelce fumbles after a short reception, and the Buccaneers recover!Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 5 Nov. 2024
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Lobby group Family Business UK said tens of thousands of family-run businesses and farms will be ruined by this change due to lower levels of inheritance tax relief.Marc Shoffman, theweek, 6 Nov. 2024
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The ground floors of thousands of homes have been ruined.Hernán Muñoz and Joseph Wilson, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
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Dodge won't spoil the surprise by confirming if the last one will be based on the Charger or the Challenger (or maybe both), but the evidence suggests the latter is more likely.Jack Fitzgerald, Car and Driver, 13 Feb. 2023
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Farmers’ broiler chickens suffocate, and dairy products spoil.Monica Mark, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Feb. 2023
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“Boggle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boggle. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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