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Even when individual World Cups have resulted in duff events, there have still been magical moments produced.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2023

Water trickled through the canopy of old-growth trees, then the understory, forest duff, soil and rocks, before hitting the water table.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 17, 2023

Now, young stages of butterflies, moths and other beneficial insects are nestled in last year’s leaves, some of them munching on decomposing duff — leaves, twigs, bark and other plant litter.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2023

The duff — needles, branches and other plant detritus — is 2 to 3 feet deep in some parts of the Angeles National Forest, he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2022

And again he breathed in the green in the strawberry runners, the rain in the cedar duff, and the salt water.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

The song’s composer used Indian skin drums called duffs, whose sound he compared to the traditional beats of folk songs celebrated in villages.

From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2023

But, perhaps most importantly, she’s here to remind others to get off their duffs and out into the world, no matter their ages.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2021

But nobody will ever discover those capabilities if Siri duffs the basics on an equally regular basis.

From The Verge ● Sep. 14, 2020

But it’s likely to boost CrossFit studio memberships much in the same way that “The Biggest Loser” inspired couch potatoes to get off their duffs and join a gym.

From Salon ● Jan. 3, 2019

“We aren’t just going to sit around on our fat duffs and do nothing, are we?”

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

It was all the more remarkable given Scheffler had earlier duffed a chip from the fairway on the fifth hole, which ended up rolling back down the hill and further away than his initial shot.

From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2022

But he duffed the first pitch shot and made bogey.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 17, 2022

Lazarides has now self-published a book of his photographs from the time he travelled the world tasked with making sure Banksy didn’t get arrested or duffed up and didn’t run out of spray paint.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 16, 2019

My only real concern was when they duffed a shot a few yards into the infield and instinctively chased after it, narrowly avoiding shanked 8-irons that screamed by their heads.

From Golf Digest ● Jun. 16, 2019

I ought to have duffed in harder on the blamed code.

From Walter and the Wireless by William F. (William Frederick) Stecher

BROADCASTER: He went into his previous Masters duffing chips all over the place, yet he was fine when he got there, so you can never tell with him.

From Golf Digest ● Mar. 13, 2018

When they got down to hitting a golf ball, Fowler was the first to cock it up, duffing his greenside chip to gift the best player in the world first blood after just five minutes.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 28, 2014

England's agony has gone on, day after day, like that same golfer being forced to play round after failing round, an Open every week, duffing drives and missing putts, swing in pieces, galleries guffawing.

From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2013

The opener was a touch didactic, but Jay and Lynn make a decent stab at moving with the times, slipping in iPads and a Paxmanesque TV duffing for Hacker.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 27, 2012

The youngest pupil at Mecklemburg House was perfectly aware that the school was a "duffing" school, that Mr. Fletcher was a "duffing" principal, and that everything about the place was "duffing" altogether.

From A Hero of Romance by Richard Marsh