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And the libretto, you know—I’m gonna bum out libretto fans—the libretto is not really what opera is about.

From Slate ● Mar. 18, 2025

Those games still can end in a tie, unlike with college football, which spent its first 126 years allowing ties, which would bum out everyone.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 28, 2021

You can throw the bum out and put yourself in an apartment and terminally poor for the rest of your life to "teach him" that it was a horrible thing to do.

From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2017

Note that the animated sequels, which usually cost hundreds of millions to produce, are among the worst performers; that has to bum out the folks at Pixar and DreamWorks.

From Time ● Dec. 18, 2011

Then Gerald Scarfe drew Harold Macmillan with his bum out and Britain's monocle popped like a champagne cork.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 17, 2010




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