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boo boo

[boo-boo] / ˈbuˌbu /




boo-boo




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"Naomi, my boo boo bunny, I love you so much. We love you so much," Naomi's mother, Diana Irion, said in a tearful message to her daughter.

From Fox News ● Mar. 24, 2022

I am the POTUS—- boo boo on you!

From Washington Post ● Nov. 18, 2021

An open message to all you loving tolerant righteous enlightened kind cozy boo boo bears.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2020

It’s like a late-night writer’s dream come true when DiCaprio texts back: “You mean tonight, boo boo, club-wise?”

From The Guardian ● Apr. 1, 2016

Politician makes a boo boo then does the decent thing.

From BBC ● Dec. 13, 2012

It might be your internet company’s fault, a boo-boo with your home equipment or interference from your neighbor’s Call of Duty game night.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2023

Some attestation forms seem impractical, requiring parents to interview their pre-school-age children about their health, when some that age can’t distinguish between a boo-boo and a sore throat.

From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2022

“Then everybody put a boo-boo on that. They said: ‘What are you doing, ratting on about that?’

From The Guardian ● Mar. 23, 2020

“We love and miss you, boo-boo and Gigi,” she said to them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2020

About the mother kissing away her child’s boo-boo.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

“We have so many animals that have boo-boos in our book,” a brown-haired woman said in a singsong voice, holding up a book called “All Better!”

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 2, 2023

She has also gotten a couple of mulligans on biographical boo-boos.

From Fox News ● Oct. 9, 2019

Epic Fails of 2016 This new special surveys some of the biggest pop-culture boo-boos and celebrity blunders of the past 12 months.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2016

The guy proved his willingness to suit up despite some internal boo-boos.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 3, 2011

After all, leaving the wrong impression is much worse than making a couple of grammatical boo-boos.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner




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