fluster

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

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

The Terrapins were on their heels in the second quarter, when Notre Dame used a 13-0 run to take a 27-19 lead as its zone seemed to fluster Maryland.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 25, 2023

In a fluster of self-consciousness he turned his back, dropped a hot coal into the nest of charcoal in the furnace and began to blow on it vigorously.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

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

"She never seems to get into flusters like you do, she seems to have something that steadies her, somehow; I hardly know how to put it."

From The Little Missis by Charlotte Skinner

They are the well-oiled collection of busy little players who keep the ball like no one else—the side that measures every touch, weaves complex passing patterns and never, ever seems flustered.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 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

If he looked flustered, he had just come from more than an hour batting in the nets.

From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026

“Let me put on some clothes first,” she told the nurse, flustered.

From Salon ● May 27, 2026

It was one of those rare moments when my sister found herself flustered and at a loss.

From "It All Comes Down to This" by Karen English

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

But the Cavaliers permitted just four points the rest of the way, flustering Providence into 1-for-18 shooting down the stretch.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 23, 2021

The man was admitted, and his heavy step up the spiral stair, flustering in the toil of a vain precipitude in the dark entrance, declared the impatience of his intelligence.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume III by Various