FOOZLING Synonyms: 61 Similar and Opposite Words

foozling

verb

present participle of foozle

as in fumbling

to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way foozled the attempt to move the couch into the apartment and tore the fabric on the arms

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The fight sequences have an engaging messiness, the characters often fumbling around rather than delivering expert moves.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026
Clinicians should be working to support us, not fumbling incompetently or making paternalistic determinations.

— Meg LeDuc, STAT, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of fumbling

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Winds blowing east to west along the equator push water in the Pacific Ocean west toward Asia, Jacox said.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2026
Andersen sees energy storage, which would allow for continual energy supply even when the wind isn’t blowing, as the wind sector’s next big opportunity.

— Sam Birchall, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of blowing

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As wet electrodes get thicker, the liquid binder migrates unevenly during drying, ruining the battery‘s structure.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 30 Sep. 2026
Seaver also allegedly threatened to start a podcast dedicated to ruining Parton’s image unless he was paid.

— Allison DeGrushe, StyleCaster, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of ruining

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Caleb Flynn, the former American Idol contestant who was found guilty of murdering his wife, Ashley Flynn, has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

— Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 5 Oct. 2026
The former American Idol contestant and church worship leader convicted of murdering his wife and staging the scene to look like a burglary was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on Monday.

— Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of murdering

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The new live features include a new co-hosting function in which two creators can appear on the same stream together, and a live auto-dubbing tool that automatically translates speech in real time.

— Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2026
The platform also carries premium-quality subtitles and dubbing in more than 12 Asian languages, among them English, Hindi, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada and Marathi.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of dubbing

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