frazzle

It was also apparent in a humbling Australian Open quarter-final defeat by 37-year-old Novak Djokovic, who injured his hamstring but managed to frazzle Alcaraz through his wily know-how.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2025

Paul Arguin and Chris Taylor, authors of the new “Fabulous Modern Cookies,” support a well-placed swap of like for like, saving money and frazzle.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 5, 2022

So you think the Olympics frazzle the nerves more than any event?

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 24, 2021

It turns out Son has the speed of thought and movement to frazzle an unguarded defensive flank.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 23, 2019

There was a car ready to leave, and I found a seat next the window and it started and I watched it sort of frazzle out into slack tide flats, and then trees.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner

“There’s a script for ‘Barefoot in the Park’ that’s so fragile that I’m afraid to even touch it because the paper is so old that it sort of frazzles away,” he said.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 25, 2022

Constantly hovering over your children, while simultaneously trying to have a fight on Twitter and find a food recycling bag, frazzles everyone.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 14, 2018

Many return to a single topic: technology-driven modernity and how it frazzles the contemplative mind.

From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2015

It is a lot of typical evenings in New York rolled into one, shaped by Broadway's Neil Simon into a frantic, funny tale that frazzles the nerve ends.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sometimes they found three or four in a day, but the creatures always swam faster than their pursuers and were still frisky when the boys were worn to frazzles.

From Dick in the Everglades by A. W. Dimock

It’s a question frazzled shoppers have pondered for years, wondering whether a few shots would help steel them for Black Friday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

But a lot of simple tasks have gotten more complicated, and from where I sit, people are more wired but less connected, and definitely more frazzled.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

If you’ve had a nightmare of a journey, don’t arrive frazzled and in a bad temper.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 17, 2026

Starting the year on Radio 1's Sound of 2026 list suggests there won't be much let-up, no matter how frazzled the band seem to be.

From BBC ● Jan. 5, 2026

Mrs. Hameed ignores the chatter and goes on teaching without getting frazzled.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan

Complaints about a lack of available interpreters are common in the downtown courthouse, sometimes delaying cases for people in custody and frazzling interpreters asked to cover more hearings than they can handle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2023

Washington’s front four also played a role in frazzling Rodgers and making him look more like a rookie than a 38-year-old four-time MVP.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 23, 2022

This spring, the trio led by singer/guitarist Nicolle Swims dropped its wiry debut EP, marked by Swims’ frazzling, spiky guitar work and wry vocal delivery.

From Seattle Times ● May 1, 2019

It wasn't fast and frazzling, it was slow and soothing.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2014

As to frazzling, seems like we only frazzle just so far, then a stitch holds and we get our breath.”

From At the Crossroads by Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa) Comstock