Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for piffled
Verb
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The unease is muddled, and the characters seem less vulnerable as a result.—
J. Kim Murphy,
Variety,
3 Sep. 2025 -
An internal review found that communication by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was muddled and inconsistent.—
Joshua P. Cohen,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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They are boggled even more when told that the Fed creating a new $10,000 out of nothing for one borrowing bank could increase the total national money supply, currency plus bank deposits, several times.—
Edward Lotterman,
Twin Cities,
31 Aug. 2025
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The house is haunted by a family of farmers that lived and died on the land, murdered horribly by the patriarch of the family, but really, the problem is the demon that controls the mirror and its dark reflections.—
Dani Di Placido,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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Conservative activist Charlie Kirk was murdered on Wednesday during a speaking engagement at Utah Valley University.—
The Editorial Board,
Oc Register,
10 Sep. 2025
Verb
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And the Ravens completely botched a late second-quarter sequence that resulted in the Bills making a late field goal.—
The Athletic NFL Staff,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
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There are many stars in Francis Ford Coppola’s batshit crazy and, some would say, botched $120-million dystopian epic from last year, Megalopolis, which the legendary Hollywood auteur paid for out of his own pocket.—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
28 Aug. 2025
Verb
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When the flagellum is malformed or its movement is impaired, the sperm cannot travel efficiently, leading to male infertility.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
11 Sep. 2025
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In this study, feeding mice a HFD for four days impaired that glucose availability in the brain, causing CCK interneurons to ramp up their firing.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
11 Sep. 2025
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Cal Fire’s newest proposal for Jackson, dubbed AMEX, targets nearly 500 acres with a patchwork of small clearcuts and is silent on tree sizes to be felled.—
John P. O’Brien,
Mercury News,
13 Sep. 2025
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The 20-to-30 degrees of galactic latitude, both north and south of the galactic plane, were dubbed the Zone of Avoidance in the late 19th century, because while there were huge numbers of spiral nebulae elsewhere, all across the sky, there were none found in or near the plane of the Milky Way.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Piffled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/piffled. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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