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bogus

[boh-guhs] / ˈboʊ gəs /


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Just outside Boise, Idaho, a home owned by a onetime Winter Olympian near the Bogus Basin ski resort is hitting the market for $6.8 million.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026

Bogus Basin shuttered early—on March 24—the “earliest closing in 10 years,” according to Wilson.

From Slate • Apr. 11, 2026

Shasta’s ancestors inhabited the lands around Copco Lake near Bogus Mountain before there were formal records of the area, according to Siskiyou County Board of Supervisors meeting documents.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 2024

Bogus leads — a stranger with a “vision” at Point Defiance Park, a Dallas child with a resemblance to Teekah — sent investigators to dead ends.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 23, 2024

“All the times me and Jasper hassled you, it was wrong, okay? Bogus and wrong.”

From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen




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