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Recent Examples of boo-boo In his first start in two weeks, Marc-Andre Fleury survived a first-shift boo-boo and made 28 saves to improve to 4-0-1. Michael Russo, The Athletic, 21 Nov. 2024 The Sun newspaper reports that Robinson made the boo-boo Friday morning during the BBC’s flagship current affairs radio show The Today Programme. Caroline Frost, Deadline, 19 Oct. 2024 Advertisement The ‘biggies’ Here are the big boo-boos that justify packing up your pruners for the day and going inside for a timeout. Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 May 2024 And because blue cats were purposely introduced in Virginia decades ago to boost recreational fishing opportunities, nobody wants to talk about how that was ultimately a boo-boo. Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 16 Nov. 2023 Place the 100% cotton bear in the freezer, then remove it when your little one needs to cool off or has a boo-boo. Amanda Crane, Health, 14 Aug. 2023 This new multiverse boo-boo is a potential reason to watch the Flash zoom through the timestream in another movie to try to fix it. David Betancourt, Washington Post, 17 June 2023 Advertisement On Saturday, staff members from the university’s Val G. Hemming Simulation Center will be painting facsimiles of various bug boo-boos, from spider bites to the rash from the bite of a tick carrying Rocky Mountain spotted fever. John Kelly, Washington Post, 7 June 2023 No one on Friday was caught in thicker fog than Clifton, who is both the Bruins’ hardest hitter and too often their biggest boo-boo maker. Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Apr. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for boo-boo
Noun
  • This makes people more forgiving when leaders make mistakes.
    Tendayi Viki, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025
  • How does that kind of high-consequence mistake happen?
    CBS News, CBS News, 23 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • After coalescing with ultranationalists to establish the nation's furthest right government in late 2022, the former special forces commando who had already become Israel's longest serving premier largely deflected criticism over the intelligence blunder of October 7, 2023.
    Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Yet, the Trump White House and leading Republicans in Congress have tried mightily to put a positive spin on the colossal blunder, even as Democrats pounced on it.
    Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune, 30 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The lawsuit claims medical errors happened during the procedure, which led to the bowel perforation.
    Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 27 Mar. 2025
  • All the results were just outside margins of error.
    Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Mar. 2025

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“Boo-boo.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boo-boo. Accessed 5 Apr. 2025.

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