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as in mistake
an unintentional departure from truth or accuracy
the flustered newscaster's fluffs included a mispronunciation of the town's name
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as in to fumble
to make a mistake
unnerved by her earlier missteps, the skater fluffed on the final jump as well
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as in to blow
to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way
I completely fluffed the introduction by calling the boss's wife by the wrong name
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Recent Examples of fluff
Simon Thompson, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024
Which is why, as best-selling author Casey McQuiston argues in an essay for this project, anyone who dismisses romance as fluff or the stuff of guilty pleasure is missing the point.
—Annabel Gutterman, TIME, 1 Aug. 2024
Ashley Zlatopolsky, Architectural Digest, 15 Aug. 2024
This 20-inch wreath arrives packed in a smaller box, so take some time to fluff and arrange it so that the many layers of autumn are on full display.
—Barbara Bellesi Zito, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Aug. 2024
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Noun
No filler or fluff is going to make the show anymore.
—Simon Thompson, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024
Which is why, as best-selling author Casey McQuiston argues in an essay for this project, anyone who dismisses romance as fluff or the stuff of guilty pleasure is missing the point.
—Annabel Gutterman, TIME, 1 Aug. 2024
Verb
While some pillows have to be fluffed back into shape, the Brooklyn Bedding Latex Pillow keeps its shape and support thanks to its bouncy, latex material.
—Ashley Zlatopolsky, Architectural Digest, 15 Aug. 2024
This 20-inch wreath arrives packed in a smaller box, so take some time to fluff and arrange it so that the many layers of autumn are on full display.
—Barbara Bellesi Zito, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fluff
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In Denver, voters will decide on sales tax hikes for a hospital and affordable housing, a ban on slaughterhouses and fur products, and a billion-dollar school spending plan.John Frank, Axios, 5 Nov. 2024
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He’s got pantyhose on, no top, no shirt, a fur coat, and the hair is curled.Essence, Essence, 5 Nov. 2024
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The Sharks scored first at Madison Square Garden but couldn’t overcome their mistakes in the latter half of the second, allowing three unanswered goals in less than five minutes in a frustrating 3-2 loss to the Rangers in the third game of a four-game road trip.Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 14 Nov. 2024
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As the holiday season approaches, Jordan is turning his mistake into positive action by using his newfound notoriety to help drive donations to the Rocky Hill Human Services Food Bank, his police department said on social media.Gabriella Rudy, NBC News, 12 Nov. 2024
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After wide receiver Courtland Sutton fumbled at the goal line, the Panthers marched down the field on a 10-play, 98-yard scoring drive, which ended with Young finding Coker for a 15-yard touchdown pass.Ryan McFadden, The Denver Post, 29 Oct. 2024
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Even in that moment, he got stuck on a couple of words and fumbled the line.ABC NEWS, ABC News, 21 Oct. 2024
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Without breaking stride, Hunter blew past four more Utah defenders and hopped into the end zone, a broken play transformed into a work of art.Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 16 Nov. 2024
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Oldenburg’s ode to Mies van der Rohe’s signature pocket square, the 12-foot fiberglass Handkerchief, will blow toward Park Avenue, and inside, a giant cloth saw will hug the walls and floor.Morgan Meier, Curbed, 12 Nov. 2024
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Deep water surrounded much of the area, so someone had placed sheets of wood on top of a chain link fence and balanced both on blocks of plastic foam, creating a makeshift barge that could pull piles of debris from shore to shore. Skid loaders crisscrossed the nearby sand.Blake Nelson, The Mercury News, 12 Nov. 2024
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The zoo shared a video of the baby calf sniffing for food in a pile of glass across its social media accounts to celebrate her birth.Ingrid Vasquez, People.com, 5 Nov. 2024
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There was also the larger error of anointing Harris without political competition — an insult to the democratic process that handed the nomination to a candidate who, as some of us warned at the time, was exceptionally weak.Bret Stephens, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024
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Recent polling from the Free Press had indicated that Harris appeared to have a slight, 3-percentage-point lead on Trump in Michigan, though that was within the poll's 4-percentage-point margin of error.Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press, 6 Nov. 2024
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Surveyors reportedly stumbled upon the endangered bees during an environmental review of the area, forcing regulators to suspend the project.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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In the fall of 2022, a Princeton University graduate student named Carolina Figueiredo stumbled onto a massive coincidence.Charlie Wood, WIRED, 3 Nov. 2024
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Lobby group Family Business UK said tens of thousands of family-run businesses and farms will be ruined by this change due to lower levels of inheritance tax relief.Marc Shoffman, theweek, 6 Nov. 2024
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The ground floors of thousands of homes have been ruined.Hernán Muñoz and Joseph Wilson, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
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“Fluff.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fluff. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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