BOBBLED Synonyms: 82 Similar and Opposite Words

bobbled

verb

past tense of bobble

as in fumbled

to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way the first baseman bobbled the catch, so the runner was safe

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as in bobbed

to make short up-and-down movements the little doll's head bobbled when you poked it

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Recent Examples of bobbled On the next drive, Ford took the snap and bobbled it before securing the ball and darting around the edge to run for a five-yard touchdown. — ABC News, 17 Oct. 2026 Milwaukee closed to 3-2 in the seventh when Garrett Mitchell scored from third as Cronenworth bobbled Hamilton's grounder and then threw past first for a double error. — Arkansas Online, 5 Oct. 2026 Jaylen Wright, who made his second NFL start as the replacement for injured Pro Bowler De’Von Achane, bobbled the kickoff, forcing the offense to start the critical drive on the 18-yard line. — Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 4 Oct. 2026 Witt bobbled a groundball as Jo Adell reached first base to begin the frame. — Kansas City Star, 27 Sep. 2026 The first turnover of the game was a Herbert interception that was a good ball on third down, dropped and bobbled into the defense’s hands by tight end David Njoku. — Saad Yousuf, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2026 Njoku bobbled the pass, however, and the ball was grabbed by rookie safety Hezekiah Masses, who had another pick in the fourth quarter during his first career start. — Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2026 Beckham lunged and tried to haul it in, but the ball bobbled incomplete. — Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 29 Aug. 2026 Machado followed with a single to the gap in right-center that McCarthy bobbled, allowing Cronenworth to race around third and get home to tie the game again. — Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 July 2026

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Thomas and Woods fumbled in the first half in Spartan territory — their first of the season on 118 combined carries thus far.

— Connor Dullinger, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2026
During Sunday night’s game against the Seahawks at Lumen Field in Seattle, Mahomes fumbled after a big hit, and roughly 22 players had a chance to recover the ball.

— Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of fumbled

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The Chiefs had no answer for Smith-Njigba, who bobbed and weaved his way through the defense for nine catches, 150 yards and a touchdown.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 25 Oct. 2026
On a recent morning, surfers bobbed in the water off North Beach, not far from the rocky structure shoring up the train tracks by the sea.

— ABC News, ABC News, 27 Sep. 2026

Definition of bobbed

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The stocks are already down over 30% each in October as credit investors blew their yields out to distressed levels, doubting their business model of using aggressive levels of debt to build data centers.

— Leonie Kidd, CNBC, 26 Oct. 2026
After losing consecutive non-road games by three points both times, on Saturday night UT blew a 24-3 halftime lead to turn it a fourth-quarter tie.

— Mac Engel October 25, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of blew

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Kennedy also pointed to millions of dollars being pumped into this race on both sides, saying each party sees the seat as in play.

— Dan Snyder, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026
The fuel was pumped across a hose to Mineral Europa by a converted bunkering vessel, Shenghang Yongle, which entered service less than five weeks before the operation.

— Muskan Bhatia, Interesting Engineering, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of pumped

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The tech-heavy Nasdaq has fought its way into the green Tuesday, as influential AI stocks like CoreWeave shook off earlier losses.

— Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 20 Oct. 2026
The pope then walked outside greeted and waved at the crowd and shook hands of hospital staff lined up by car to see him off.

— ABC News, ABC News, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of shook

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During the test, Linton jerked and twitched in what prosecutors described as an attempt to fake a seizure.

— James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026
Somewhere nearby, in a dark office, an eavesdropping oreja has just jerked to attention on his hard little chair.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2026

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