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Recent Examples of duffer
Many duffers would pick two-time major PGA Tour champion John Daly, whose on-and-off course feats have become legend.
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Richard Johnson, New York Daily News, 14 July 2024
For 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
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Noun
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Testing includes closed-course validation and large-scale simulation alongside public road testing.—
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Newcastle had a penalty chance of their own waved away just before the break, with referee Michael Salisbury booking Joelinton for simulation.—
Noun
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Recycled pop bottles are made into carpets and seat linings, and cotton shoddy—used to make blue jeans—is recycled and turned into sound insulation.—
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Only traditional organic feeds such as the shoddy are allowed—
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As opposed to palookas and has-beens and tin cans and stumblebums, a player who got waived departed with his dignity intact.—
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Gerald Ford, for all his stumblebum image, was a Yale Law School graduate and veteran of legislative details.—
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For shoppers hoping for a discount by trading down for a synthetic, alternatives haven't been spared either.—
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Made of durable synthetic rattan with a rust-proof steel frame, it’s built to last and easy to care for—simply wipe it down with a damp cloth to remove dust as needed.—
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Suddenly, these two louts are forced to support themselves for the first time.—
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The drunken louts who mocked and obscenely jeered the European Ryder Cup contenders at last weekend’s event at Bethpage Black golf course on Long Island would have loved it.—
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From her minimum security lockup, she’s begun mounting her own social media blitz in a seeming attempt to win Trump’s favor and get sprung from prison and freed from accountability for her epic swindle.—
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While Yusuf was found guilty of six counts of aiding and abetting theft by swindle (over $35,000) in August by a jury, the decision was overturned by Judge Sarah West in November, according to KARE.—
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“Duffer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/duffer. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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