frazzle

It was also apparent in a humbling Australian Open quarter-final defeat by 37-year-old Novak Djokovic, who injured his hamstring but managed to frazzle Alcaraz through his wily know-how.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2025

The lens skulks like a voyeur and does what it can to frazzle us, too.

From New York Times ● May 5, 2022

They got soaked in their yachts, broke their necks on their polo ponies and wore themselves to a frazzle walking all over tarnation hitting little white balls with a stick for no reason.

From Washington Post ● May 20, 2019

Sweet but drowning in self-doubt, Louella is always in a frazzle.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 10, 2012

There was a car ready to leave, and I found a seat next the window and it started and I watched it sort of frazzle out into slack tide flats, and then trees.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner

“There’s a script for ‘Barefoot in the Park’ that’s so fragile that I’m afraid to even touch it because the paper is so old that it sort of frazzles away,” he said.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 25, 2022

Constantly hovering over your children, while simultaneously trying to have a fight on Twitter and find a food recycling bag, frazzles everyone.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 14, 2018

Many return to a single topic: technology-driven modernity and how it frazzles the contemplative mind.

From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2015

It is a lot of typical evenings in New York rolled into one, shaped by Broadway's Neil Simon into a frantic, funny tale that frazzles the nerve ends.

From Time Magazine Archive

Of course, fightin' hurts a young fellow because it frazzles the silk outa him an' all that.

From The Valley of the Moon by Jack London

Two hours of chaos frazzled England and exposed old doubts from Root's first spell as captain.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

But a lot of simple tasks have gotten more complicated, and from where I sit, people are more wired but less connected, and definitely more frazzled.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

In the financial crisis of 2008-09, the investment bank Goldman Sachs had a secret weapon: Its CEO, Lloyd Blankfein, was a lifelong worrywart with plenty of tricks for calming his own frazzled nerves.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026

If you’ve had a nightmare of a journey, don’t arrive frazzled and in a bad temper.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 17, 2026

Ashley had been around these parts for far too long to really crack, but I was still surprised to see her so frazzled and at a loss for what to say.

From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken

Washington’s front four also played a role in frazzling Rodgers and making him look more like a rookie than a 38-year-old four-time MVP.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 23, 2022

This spring, the trio led by singer/guitarist Nicolle Swims dropped its wiry debut EP, marked by Swims’ frazzling, spiky guitar work and wry vocal delivery.

From Seattle Times ● May 1, 2019

But after a year of frazzling negotiations and two missed deadlines, the diplomats have done just that.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2014

It wasn't fast and frazzling, it was slow and soothing.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2014

As to frazzling, seems like we only frazzle just so far, then a stitch holds and we get our breath.”

From At the Crossroads by Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa) Comstock