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also bogie
or bogy
1
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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2
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
Jacob Skov Olesen, the British Amateur champion last year from Denmark, was the first player to get to 5 under until a bogey at the last.
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Doug Ferguson, Chicago Tribune, 17 July 2025
After finding the edge of the rough on the left, McIlroy began his search for a second Open title with a bogey.
—Jack Bantock, CNN Money, 17 July 2025
The Hogs star carded six birdies and two bogeys (68) during the final round to run away with the title.
—Julio Cesar Valdera Morales, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 July 2025
McIlroy ended with a bogey, and a discovered ball on the 11th hole.
—Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 19 July 2025
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Doug Ferguson, Chicago Tribune, 17 July 2025
After finding the edge of the rough on the left, McIlroy began his search for a second Open title with a bogey.
—Jack Bantock, CNN Money, 17 July 2025
The Hogs star carded six birdies and two bogeys (68) during the final round to run away with the title.
—Julio Cesar Valdera Morales, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 July 2025
McIlroy ended with a bogey, and a discovered ball on the 11th hole.
—Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 19 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bogey
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Together with folklore professor Yeom Hae-sang (Oh Jung-se), San-yeong comes to understand both her own grief and the trauma death leaves behind as Revenant embraces the quiet, brooding dread that makes Korean horror genuinely unnerving.—
Geoffrey Bunting,
Time,
1 Aug. 2025
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Tim’s family trauma, while prompting some delightfully repulsive SFX, seems to exist only for that reason, or to give the film an additional whiff of dread.—
Madison Bloom,
Pitchfork,
31 July 2025
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Choose from ghosts, black cats, and pumpkins, all with a range of colors to match your home’s color palette.—
Sophia Beams,
Better Homes & Gardens,
31 July 2025
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The nearly 150-year-old building also comes with a mischievous (and fictitious) ghost the team at Santé’ has dubbed Dante.—
Samantha Husted,
Charlotte Observer,
30 July 2025
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They are professedly based on hunches that the enemy will attack, occupy or conquer at some future time unless the enemy is obliterated.—
Bruce Fein,
Baltimore Sun,
24 July 2025
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Synthetic data becomes a strategic blind spot by creating sameness, and sameness is the enemy of competitive advantage.—
Jēnna Reese,
Forbes.com,
23 July 2025
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Here are 29 of the best bars in America for 2025, as chosen by USA TODAY Network journalists who know their hometown haunts inside and out.—
USA Today,
USA Today,
30 July 2025
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Fresh off of her repeat Emmy nomination for her role in Apple TV+’s Shrinking, Jessica Williams popped by her old haunt at The Daily Show to discuss how president Donald Trump is scapegoating famous Black people to distract from the mounting pressure over the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.—
Natalie Oganesyan,
Deadline,
28 July 2025
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It was emptied of us and, therefore, full of dunes and demons, bogs and bleeding trees.—
Devon Walker-Figueroa,
The New York Review of Books,
3 July 2025
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Things become messy when a popular rival boy band – The Saja Boys – are revealed to be demons.—
Laura Sirikul,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2025
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And in May, reporting revealed the charity had dropped commitments to housing and homelessness nonprofits, including many focused on MAGA’s biggest bugaboos: racial equity and economic inclusion.—
Max Taves,
Mercury News,
11 July 2025
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And so far, Edmonton’s biggest bugaboo, goaltending, has held steady.—
Steve Conroy,
Boston Herald,
30 May 2025
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Other Estonian angel investors who have previously backed Lightyear also participated in the funding round, including Wise co-founder Taavet Hinrikus, Checkout.com's former Chief Technology Officer Ott Kaukver and Skype founding engineer Jaan Tallinn.—
Ryan Browne,
CNBC,
24 July 2025
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Early risers will beat beachgoers to find coquinas, false angel wings, conch, murexes, scallops, tulip shells, and more.—
Gabi De la Rosa,
Southern Living,
24 July 2025
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No one mentioned the annoying swarms of tiny biting midges that plague Scotland’s west coast in the summer.—
Angus MacKinnon,
CNN Money,
3 Aug. 2025
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Meanwhile, as advocacy groups wrangle to get answers, GWI continues to plague veterans.—
Kate Plummer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 July 2025
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“Bogey.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bogey. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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