frazzle
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The probe will have to endure temperatures of 1,400C and radiation that could frazzle the onboard electronics.
From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2024
“Campaigns are exhausting. They frazzle your soul. … It’s like trying to ride a bicycle in an earthquake,” Galston says.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 10, 2019
The battle here is playing out on a grand stage, amid 20 million people and 5 million vehicles, in traffic that can frazzle even the calmest nerves.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 7, 2015
When you push these guys to a frazzle, it’s tough.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2012
Though glad to see daylight, she was worn to a frazzle.
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
“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
The red head nodded till its flying frazzles quivered like tongues of flame.
From Judith of the Cumberlands by Alice MacGowan
By evening’s end, a frazzled Ventura senior citizen — during a cloak-and-dagger assignation — had uttered a secret code to a person who claimed to be law enforcement, then handed him $25,000.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026
In the financial crisis of 2008-09, the investment bank Goldman Sachs had a secret weapon: Its CEO, Lloyd Blankfein, was a lifelong worrywart with plenty of tricks for calming his own frazzled nerves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
If you’ve had a nightmare of a journey, don’t arrive frazzled and in a bad temper.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 17, 2026
“Combining travel on the busiest days of the year with big group events can make you frazzled or anxious,” said Manhattan psychotherapist Justena Kavanagh.
From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2025
Mama sounded loud and frazzled, and Anya looked down at Zvezda.
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
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
But after a year of frazzling negotiations and two missed deadlines, the diplomats have done just that.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2014
It wasn't fast and frazzling, it was slow and soothing.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2014
And take this to bed with you, brother: the frazzling isn’t half so dangerous as dry rot, or moth eating holes in you.
From At the Crossroads by Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa) Comstock
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