putter
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And around the greens, he’s already viewed as an elite putter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
“When I’m working, I just don’t cook at all basically, and then when I get time off I like to putter around in the kitchen. I’m not very good, but I like to do it.”
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 11, 2026
I think I’m just a serial putterer, in that I putter around and I don’t know what I’m doing a lot of the time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2025
The US-based Cornishman - arguably the world's best putter - is ranked 10 places lower at 57th, despite reaching the season-ending Tour Championship.
From BBC ● Nov. 24, 2025
Jean Louise drove the putter home beside the fire tongs, gathered up the golf balls, and threw them at the spittoon.
From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee
The occasion often feels tacked-on amid the barbecues and the shiny putters trotted out like obligations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
Before the finals, the shot putters emerged from a tunnel, one by one, pausing in front of a television camera.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2024
Chips from tight links turf required absolute precision, often putters were the correct option.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2024
She said she prefers to swap out putters every week and is proud that she has kept this one in play for at least a month.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 8, 2023
It putters to the middle of the room.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
After grabbing items for dinner at a Trader Joe’s, I puttered home along a main drag with a 35 mph limit, fully pressing the pedal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Simson's moped division puttered on after the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall but eventually went bust in 2002.
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
The previous record was set 90 years ago — only about three decades after the first cars puttered through Yosemite Valley.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2023
Things puttered along until Elfster’s big break, which came in 2009: Claire’s hired the company for a Secret Santa campaign.
From Slate ● Dec. 17, 2022
Denny got the motor running and we puttered downstream, looking for harbor seals, which he said sometimes wandered up the river.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
During communist days, chronic shortages and years-long waiting lists for cars like the puttering Trabant meant that mopeds and motorcycles became an indispensable way to get around.
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
Shahed drones have been dubbed "flying mopeds" by Ukrainians because of their puttering engines.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2025
I would sometimes see him puttering around the library in our part of Arlington, Virginia.
From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2025
When the puttering motor was cut, it was suddenly quiet, just the wind in my face and the sparkling archipelago all around.
From New York Times ● Jul. 25, 2023
Mama Ya-Ya is puttering, taking her nightgown out the drawer and laying her glasses on the nightstand.
From "Ninth Ward" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
