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also bogie
or bogy
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as in dread
something or someone that causes fear or dread especially without reason
math and math tests have long been bogeys for many students
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as in ghost
the soul of a dead person thought of especially as appearing to living people
the child believed bogeys lived in the closet
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Recent Examples of bogey
That led to a bogey that was replicated at the following hole when the leader shanked his effort from a greenside bunker, opening the door for a flying Morikawa to move within two strokes.
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Jack Bantock, CNN, 2 Sep. 2024
Korda, the defending Olympic champion, was having a brilliant second round yesterday, before a quadruple bogey at the 16th hole, followed by a bogey at the 17th, derailed her run.
—NBC News, 9 Aug. 2024
Rose, 6-under at the turn, stumbled with a bogey at the 12th hole and despite two birdies on his final three holes could never rein in the leader.
—Bob Gillespie, Charlotte Observer, 21 July 2024
With one final bogey for a 3-over 73, Woods finishes out of the top 100 for the first time ever in a major.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2024
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Jack Bantock, CNN, 2 Sep. 2024
Korda, the defending Olympic champion, was having a brilliant second round yesterday, before a quadruple bogey at the 16th hole, followed by a bogey at the 17th, derailed her run.
—NBC News, 9 Aug. 2024
Rose, 6-under at the turn, stumbled with a bogey at the 12th hole and despite two birdies on his final three holes could never rein in the leader.
—Bob Gillespie, Charlotte Observer, 21 July 2024
With one final bogey for a 3-over 73, Woods finishes out of the top 100 for the first time ever in a major.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2024
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In a year of exuberance and dread, songs came from every which way to comfort, to amuse, to haunt, to tantalize.August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2024
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In addition, Head owns leading binding brand Tyrolia, and the Protector bindings are a major safety innovation and big deal in the marketplace, designed to help prevent knee injuries, a dread of skiers everywhere.Larry Olmsted, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
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Easier said than done since many of the ghosts that haunt Light Shop are jump-out-of-your-seat scary.Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
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The ultimate effect is paradoxical: the more that Valéry eliminates the ghost of pain and passion from the logical machinery of his work, the starker and more affecting the moans and cries of the ghost become.Benjamin Kunkel, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
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This terrifying and occasionally gory tale follows a warrior in an unfamiliar environment forced by a floating gold orb, Puck, to eat many enemies, thus becoming stronger.Felecia Wellington Radel, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2024
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In a truly unprecedented move, the IAF successfully assassinated Israel’s long-time enemy, veteran Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, on September 27, 2024, in an enormous airstrike on Beirut.Paul Iddon, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
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This two-house haunt is collecting non-perishable items for the Utah Food Bank, so bring a can in appreciation.Erin Alberty, Axios, 29 Oct. 2024
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The Hill Has Eyes includes four haunts that span 45 acres.Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 18 Oct. 2024
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In the first season, Cross faces his toughest case yet while grappling with personal demons that threaten to derail him.Okla Jones, Essence, 14 Dec. 2024
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The show ran from 1997 to 2003 and saw Gellar’s Buffy Summers seek out and destroy vampires, demons and other forces of darkness, with the help of her friends.Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Dec. 2024
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The bugaboos have been controlling his high walk rate and limiting hard contact, something both the White Sox and Dodgers felt was tied to predictable pitch usage.Fabian Ardaya, The Athletic, 6 Aug. 2024
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The losing side failed to clear 70 points in all three of those contests, and offensive rebounds — the bugaboo of the 2023 U.S. World Cup team — were pivotal (and incredibly frequent) in two of them.John Hollinger, The Athletic, 16 July 2024
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Divine intervention comes in the form of Dudley (Cary Grant), an angel who helps transform the community for the better — though things take a turn when Dudley falls in love with the titular bishop's wife (Loretta Young).Kevin Jacobsen, EW.com, 13 Dec. 2024
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Medieval stories about the sacred or supernatural—demons, angels, saints, relics and visions—were set in a society where the borders between natural and supernatural were thought to have been thin or nonexistent.Matthew Gabriele, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Dec. 2024
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Needless to say, Orlok will make the trip to Wisborg — arriving in Germany like a plague, with Thomas all but crawling back home to his wife behind him — long before Western society will learn to accept that denying human desire is less a collective victory than a personal self-defeat.David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 2 Dec. 2024
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Otherwise, butterfly larvae would be like locusts, like a plague.Outside Online, Outside Online, 9 Oct. 2024
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“Bogey.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bogey. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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