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On the first point: MoviePass’ old management did indeed biff it spectacularly.

From Slate ● Jun. 17, 2023

They could biff three and still embarrass the rest of the world.

From Slate ● Aug. 12, 2016

Even amid discussions of mortality, Ed Miliband gets a biff on the nose.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 5, 2014

Saturday's John Tessier sang with the subtler artistry, whereas the strong-voiced Jonathan Boyd was insistently loud and tended to biff out accents too emphatically.

From Seattle Times ● May 9, 2011

She yust stop unt’atchin’, an’ she fair slam herse’f half way down troo de rafters to reach him an’ biff him a one-two in de ribses.

From Old Hendrik's Tales by Vaughan, Arthur Owen

But Seattle couldn’t turn it into a first down, as Hauschka biffs a 46-yard field-goal attempt.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 2, 2014

I took note this episode of how difficult it was to be a doctor in 1919, thanks to Dr. Clarkson’s plentiful biffs and boners.

From Slate ● Feb. 13, 2012

Instead, captain and vice-captain took it on, as they should: a couple of biffs from Strauss and one streaky one from Alastair Cook and the job was done.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 20, 2010

Here he appeared for a brooding pre-match net on the outfield, his first official sighting in the Surrey tracksuit, which ended with a few tension-relieving biffs into the empty seats.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 1, 2010

An’ he looks at Ou’ Wolf an’ he looks round agen, an’ he yumps an’ he biffs a scorpion what he sees him wriggle his tail out from under a stone.

From Old Hendrik's Tales by Vaughan, Arthur Owen

The event closed with the more appropriate “God Bless America” and “America the Beautiful,” but the keyboardist biffed the intro to the first and the singer strangled the final note of the second.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 15, 2020

By the middle of the tournament she had beaten a Grand Slam champion, Sam Stosur, and in the quarter-finals she biffed a player who had once been world number one, Caroline Wozniacki.

From Reuters ● May 23, 2019

But when he got to the rim, he biffed layups that he usually makes.

From Slate ● May 26, 2016

Usually, it’s pilot error, as with the guy in Colorado who got biffed off his snowmobile by an avalanche that he caused.

From BusinessWeek ● Mar. 13, 2014

The wheel which he had jogged so agreeably had come full round, and, in colloquial speech, had biffed him in the eye.

From The Lost Naval Papers by Copplestone, Bennet

Whether Pittsburgh’s vision also involved its place-kicker biffing an extra point and Baltimore missing a game-winning 44-yard field goal as time expired—it was a very difficult night for the human foot—he did not say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 5, 2026

His response since has been hearteningly uncowed: his upright, biffing style has brought eye-catching scores of 41 off 30 balls against Kings XI Punjab and a double-quick 30 against Chennai Super Kings.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 31, 2010

In World War I we rallied round the goal of biffing Kaiser Bill, the symbol of all that was hateful about Germany.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Okay, living, breathing human being,” he says, biffing her lightly on the shoulder.

From "We Were Liars" by E. Lockhart

A silence fell upon the room, a silence that seemed to symbolize the "biffing" of the doctor's son by old French.

From Plashers Mead A Novel by MacKenzie, Compton