fluster
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The defending champion is part of a seven-way tie for the first-round lead after plotting a three-under round of 67 which encapsulated his ability to play with relentless diligence and barely a flicker of fluster.
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
Never over those previous eight games did the Lakers fluster Nikola Jokic like they did Saturday, forcing the three-time MVP into firing passes off of cutters’ knees or into the front row.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 2025
Every time, he managed to fluster me anyway.
From Slate ● May 27, 2023
Throughout the attempts, I was also struck that nothing seemed to fluster the AI.
From Scientific American ● May 25, 2023
She’d been in a mood for weeks, and now my new utensil organization system had pushed her grouchiness into a full-out fluster.
From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry
The story is simple: The dad flusters, fidgets and whines; the girl gobbles room service as though aspiring to become human foie gras.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
"Nothing ever flusters Finn," says Scotland team-mate Kyle Steyn.
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2026
Not even her obliteration of such sacred territory as replacing Paul's traditional family tree with a bigger one flusters him, even though he didn't ask.
From Salon ● Nov. 27, 2022
If Geno Smith can continue his hot start and the defense flusters Trey Lance like the Bears did last week, it’s a game they could win.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 16, 2022
And she flusters me again with her coolness.
From Somewhere in Red Gap by Harry Leon Wilson
On Move 78, he wedged a white stone in the middle of AlphaGo’s position and flustered the machine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
We looked flustered, disorganised, can't defend and can't score.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
A test followed with the flustered pigeons flying off, convincing the club owners, and Hamish, a Harris hawk, became a fixture at the two-week championships.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
“Let me put on some clothes first,” she told the nurse, flustered.
From Salon ● May 27, 2026
She looked a little flustered, as if trying to decide what to say and how to say it.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
Maybe knowing so many people is behind his sweating, flustering, and giggling.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2025
Football, indeed, is a team sport and also a flustering one for the 2023 Chargers, whose inability to finish now has them on the verge of being finished.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2023
Even now I couldn’t tell what Harry wanted from me, or whether flustering me was just part of his fun.
From Slate ● May 27, 2023
He was pressured repeatedly as the Cardinals stole a page from previous Carolina opponents, flustering the former Heisman Trophy winner with a series of blitzes.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 2, 2022
Vigilant valour will afford More help, my boy, than fear or flustering.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, December 31, 1892 by Sir F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand
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