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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

“Campaigns are exhausting. They frazzle your soul. … It’s like trying to ride a bicycle in an earthquake,” Galston says.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 10, 2019

“Campaigns are exhausting. They frazzle your soul. . . . It’s like trying to ride a bicycle in an earthquake,” Galston says.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 23, 2019

When you push these guys to a frazzle, it’s tough.”

From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2012

The tassels on top had started to frazzle.

From "The Stars Beneath Our Feet" by David Barclay Moore

“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

The red head nodded till its flying frazzles quivered like tongues of flame.

From Judith of the Cumberlands by Alice MacGowan

Raden, the mall’s 30-year-old director of events, isn’t frazzled.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026

By evening’s end, a frazzled Ventura senior citizen — during a cloak-and-dagger assignation — had uttered a secret code to a person who claimed to be law enforcement, then handed him $25,000.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 17, 2026

“Combining travel on the busiest days of the year with big group events can make you frazzled or anxious,” said Manhattan psychotherapist Justena Kavanagh.

From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2025

“This is horrible,” shrieked the holographic librarian Mrs. Gause, as once again she flickered to frazzled life behind the circulation desk.

From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein

Complaints about a lack of available interpreters are common in the downtown courthouse, sometimes delaying cases for people in custody and frazzling interpreters asked to cover more hearings than they can handle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2023

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

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

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2014

And take this to bed with you, brother: the frazzling isn’t half so dangerous as dry rot, or moth eating holes in you.

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