How To Use Boffin In A Sentence
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This has something to do with the new servers Halo boffins are presently introducing.
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Mr Boffin having been several times in communication with this clerkly essence, both on its own ground and at the Bower, had no difficulty in identifying it when he saw it up in its dusty eyrie.
Our Mutual Friend
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There's more on the Titanian polar lake evaporation spaceprobe boffinry
Signs of the Times
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A computer boffin is set to make ￡5million from his revolutionary photo technology.
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Maybe the boffins could have detected a trace of irony in the way she said it.
Times, Sunday Times
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The boffins also came to the conclusion that the armour was made in a low temperature bush fire and not in a blacksmith's forge as originally thought.
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She stars as a boffin recruited by British intelligence to foil a plan to use insects in biological warfare.
The Sun
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Analysts and IT boffins are confident that the technology is going to be mainstream before very long.
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It does work - the boffin soon acts out of character by being spontaneous, but his actions only cause trouble for his female friends.
The Sun
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Using a highly scientific personality test, the boffins behind this genius idea will match you up with one of six potential mates who will then romance you via email.
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What a public rebuke from the country's top boffin.
The Sun
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Three boffins studied the miserable singer's musings on love, friendship and loss.
The Sun
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European space boffins are chuffed to announce that they have successfully 'surfed' the atmosphere of Venus, during a so-called 'aerodrag' experiment in which the solar panels of a space probe functioned as aerofoils skimming the top of the second planet's atmosphere.
The Register
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In each case, the boffins work wonders.
Times, Sunday Times
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Worryingly, disaster boffins who have worked on the game insist this scenario could actually happen.
The Sun
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Analysts and IT boffins are confident that the technology is going to be mainstream before very long.
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This time around the authors are not drunken magazine hacks back from a long lunch; they're all eminent scientists, boffins and inventors.
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And boffins say it could hold the secret to fighting the effects of long-haul flights.
The Sun
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What role did he and the intelligence boffins play in compiling the deceitful dossiers last September and February?
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Actors looking like boffins seemed to be doing eccentric things with telescopes and other instruments.
Times, Sunday Times
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But if their hit squad is responsible - another nuclear boffin was bumped off earlier this year - then we should be truly thankful.
The Sun
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Davies fell victim to his old tropes: sexualising the doctor by having him kiss yet another female companion, fetishising him by having Lee Evans as an eccentric boffin kneel at his feet and declare he loved him, and granting him another soliloquy about his cosmic solitariness.
Doctor Who Smattering of Spoilers
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Maybe the boffins could have detected a trace of irony in the way she said it.
Times, Sunday Times
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Actors looking like boffins seemed to be doing eccentric things with telescopes and other instruments.
Times, Sunday Times
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The boffins of Imperial College in London think they may have found a solution.
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He has set his sights on featuring in an inventors and boffins special.
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Aircraft factories broke production records, and a brand-new air defence system was improvised by a mixture of eccentric boffins and a bright young staff of mostly female technicians.
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US Navy boffinry chiefs say they have successfully tested a cunning, heavily augmented crane which allows containers to be loaded on and off ships tossing on the waves out at sea, removing the need for a harbour when mounting an invasion or delivering humanitarian aid.
The Register
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Avid readers and transport boffins will notice that this is the old sign from Melbourne Train Doors.
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But youre so wrong, it may seem totally dimwitted,desperate and a tad hysterical but in the nuclear industry its called 'expedited gravity enabled liquid coolant implementation'or EGELCI to the boffins .
The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
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By getting his name on the starring list, John has qualified to join a bizarre game created by computer boffins at Virginia University in the US which links actors through their films.
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As a small business owner, you are not only the head honcho, but also the bean counter, chief salesman, IT boffin, tax specialist and marketing guru too.
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Aurora borealis boffins pick the best locations and explain what is going on up there.
Times, Sunday Times
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He is also trying to change the perception of spin-outs, which are more commonly associated with university boffins trying to commercialise blue-sky research.
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Oldfield was never conferred with boffin status, unlike his contemporary, Mr Ambient himself, Brian Eno.sentence dictionary
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So what is a computer boffin doing teaching a physical education class?
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In fact, so bizarre are these minuscule penile structures that boffins will often rely on them to tell various insects apart.
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One of the main aims of this Trail is to open the world of archaeology to people beyond the boffins.
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British boffins found it makes beds less appealing to house dust mites, the tiny creatures thought to cause asthma and other allergies.
The Sun
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The company's boffins have essentially developed a material substrate into which magnetic elements made of cobalt, cobalt alloys, or nickel compounds can be embedded.
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Top boffins in the States believe that they may be on the track of a way to place living human beings into suspended animation, allowing them to survive long periods effectively frozen before being "reanimated" with no ill effects.
The Register
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It is already in use by more than 50 local authorities across the country, and has been given the thumbs-up by boffins at the Transport Research Laboratory.
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He leads an excellent ensemble cast as they battle the elements, politicians and US boffins who think they know better.
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There really is no reason why these two shouldn't have started boffing as soon as they met.
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A walk on the beach or sitting in the sand could expose you to more germs from human waste than a swim, say boffins.
The Sun
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As long as the component's use is not significantly different, these items should get a tick on the boffin's clipboard.
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He went on to suggest future inventions for boffins to work on: the slamless door, the suckless soup spoon and the trickleless tap.
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What a public rebuke from the country's top boffin.
The Sun
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ABC medical boffin Dr Norman Swan gave a speech at a healthcare conference in Canberra this week that suggests the Queen is going to be a busy woman when it comes to sending out congratulations to centenarians.
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And while such diligent pursuit of knowledge usually goes unremarked and unrewarded, next week the world's barmy boffins get their moment of glory.
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Chevy's chassis boffins have reinforced the convertible so that it is at least as stiff as the coupe—despite its lacking the cross-bracing rigidity of a hardtop—and the shock and spring rates are just as flinty as the coupe's.
A Genuine Ragtop Road Monster, Leaks and All
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BRITISH boffins hope to discover exactly what the moon is made from with an X-ray camera blasted into space yesterday.
The Sun
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According to the boffins, garlic has no flavour until the cell walls are broken, and when the cell walls are broken, the enzyme alliinase is released, which reacts with a precursor compound, alliin, to form diallyl thiosulfinate and other thiosulfinates the pongy and tasty side of the garlic.
Food for Fort: Talking turkey, and other matters
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Although collectors of real Dylan bootlegs will have been aware of this material for years, this spruced-up authorised version is another technical feat from the Columbia boffins.
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The boffins of Imperial College in London think they may have found a solution.
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So say boffins claiming to have carried out the most rigorous dunk test yet.
The Sun
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Its boffins have also created water-repellent and sun-protection fabrics that reduce chafing.
Times, Sunday Times
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Boffins aren't demigods anymore, they're acid rock.
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Their boffins used sophisticated hospital scanners to mould the exact shape of Schuey's head to within one-tenth of a millimetre.
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Some motoring boffins lauded the design, describing it as confident, unapologetic and revolutionary.
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Their boffins used sophisticated hospital scanners to mould the exact shape of Schuey's head to within one-tenth of a millimetre.
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Children are being turned off chemistry and physics by the mad professors and pointy-headed boffins of popular mythology, according to a new study of attitudes to science.
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Boffins at Britain's Ministry of Defence have invented an electric ‘force field’ designed to protect armoured vehicles against anti-tank grenades.
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A boffin has invented a car that runs on grass, or pigeon poo, or privet cuttings.
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So say boffins claiming to have carried out the most rigorous dunk test yet.
The Sun
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BBC1 will devote a Saturday night to the experiment, which should sort out boffins from buffoons by completing a set of brain-teasers.
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That'll teach her for boffing a him in a swimming pool.
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A computer boffin is set to make ￡5million from his revolutionary photo technology.
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Created by boffins at Massachusetts University of Technology (MIT), the contraption is described as “an immersive architectural solution for the advanced WoW (World of Warcraft) player that provides and anticipates all life needs”.
P2pnet World Headlines – May 11, 2009
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Boffin_, wife of Mr.N. Boffin, and daughter of a cat's-meatman.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook
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SPORT makes middleaged people brighter as well as fitter, say boffins.
The Sun
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Computer boffins working for a Glasgow architect have produced a CD which lets you explore the location and take a peek into the apartments, before a brick has been laid.
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The MoD's boffins say it is the former.
Times, Sunday Times
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Government boffins have been explaining a new weapon that destroys people but leaves houses intact.
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Before he found TV success in The Thick of It, Chris Addison was known as the boffin-comic:
Culture | guardian.co.uk
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In time, perhaps, the elusive Higgs boson might be found or not found, so conclusively settling the long-running grudge match between boffinry heavyweight Professor Higgs and his nemesis, famed wheelchair robovoice savant Stephen Hawking.
The Register
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Boffins say our brains are wired to look for faces in objects, calling the phenomenon pareidolia.
The Sun
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There's not been enough boffinry 'round here recently, so I picked a paper again.
Archive 2008-07-01
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British boffins found it makes beds less appealing to house dust mites, the tiny creatures thought to cause asthma and other allergies.
The Sun
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the scholarly man or boffin has similarly had something of an image problem, sexiness-wise, but whilst geeks have recently entered the popular vernacular as actually rather desirable despite themselves, female scholarliness has not fared so well, and the attribute 'inventor' or 'genius' is synonymous with the male mind. i dont recall albert enstein, despite his dishevelled appearance, experiencing much mockery or ridicule, and it certainly didnt put marilyn monroe off...
Brilliant women - the 18th century bluestocking
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The venture capital investor specialises in turning the harebrained ideas of university boffins into businesses.
Times, Sunday Times
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Also on Sunday afternoon the ever-popular ‘Trivia with Annabelle’ will sort out the boffins from the buffoons, with lots of prizes up for grabs and plenty of fun to be had.
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The boffins 'failure to squeeze water from moon stone was reported last week in hefty boffinry mag Science.
The Register
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Its readership embraces university boffins as much as gurriers out in the bog.
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Boffins fitted the radiofrequency identification tags on the backs of the rock ants - which grow to 3mm.
The Sun
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The MIT boffins created a physical one-way function by connecting cryptography with mesoscopics, the study of how waves travel in disordered materials.
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Boffins at Britain's Ministry of Defence have invented an electric ‘force field’ designed to protect armoured vehicles against anti-tank grenades.
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Did you know that boffin means ‘scientific expert’?
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The assembled dirt experts have convinced the editors of hefty boffinry mag presented (subsciption required for full text).
The Register
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Seriously, the boffin was a particular type of scientist who could understand the viewpoint of the services, who worked with them, and who frequently shared their dangers.
Research in the United Kingdom
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As an account of a dazzling wartime exploit, the apotheosis of boffinry, the film isn't above a certain amount of tub-thumping, but the director also knows that there are moments when it's the silent tub that makes the most noise.…
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Actors looking like boffins seemed to be doing eccentric things with telescopes and other instruments.
Times, Sunday Times
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The beach boffins came up with a formula to work out the quality of the grains of sand and its cohesive powers.
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His election reminds me of one of those 1950s science fiction movies in which a mad boffin throws a lever and the poles are reversed.
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Now, that's quite a brief for a pack of boffins playing with computers.
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Now, though, the boffins have seemingly invented a super salmon which is immune to diseases such as ISA and grows six times faster than the rate of normal farmed fish.
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The boffins also came to the conclusion that the armour was made in a low temperature bush fire and not in a blacksmith's forge as originally thought.
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Earlier this year, the US-based boffin worked out a way to genetically restore hair colour in greying mice.
The Sun
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This is the boffins 'boffin, a middle-aged man with paper and pencil who is running rings around a generation of new designers with their computers and on-screen CADCAM technology.
'Last dinosaur' Adrian Newey has vision to drive Red Bull's F1 dominance
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No, plant and science boffins needn't drop everything and arrive in Allen to seek out the rare blue daffodils.
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Our team of techno boffins are working round the clock to get the App up and running.
The Sun
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I think the word "boffin" should get its own tag...it's magnificent.
"What counts as a swot varies from school to school..."
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Supposedly she was boffing him for four years.
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The boffins are as odd as their experiments in this new sitcom set in a university's science lab.
The Sun
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Then there is the boffin inventor entrepreneur with imagination but no business savvy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Prizes should be delivered to the TV director who cut to their box in time to catch him grinning like a loon, boffing a balloon about with his feet and hands.
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Oldfield was never conferred with boffin status, unlike his contemporary, Mr Ambient himself, Brian Eno.
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But boffins say more testing is needed before the gel becomes available.
The Sun
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The company's acoustic boffins tuned the engine to introduce a throatier sounding note, so the all enveloping deep bass throb rising to spine tingling wail exists.
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When she's not boffing the mail boy in the photocopier room she's scheming to get him fired.
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A story circulated quite recently that a leading British professional, who will remain nameless to preserve his reputation, once suffered the indignity of a humiliating beating while at school - against the spectacled class boffin.
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On the story of him boffing his wife, he said ‘I was flattered, but it didn't happen.’
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Aggie is bespectacled, Scottish and petite. In her white dustcoat she looks like a laboratory boffin, an appearance that she reinforces by talking about ‘microbes’ with her delicious, rolling Scottish accent.
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Well, the boffins reckon it's related to the "rubbernecking" concept - the process whereby you try and drive by an accident without having a shufti but "our emotions of concern, fear and curiosity cause us to stare out the window at the accident and slow to a crawl as we drive by"...
"Porn makes you bind" - distractions distract...
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Just in case you still think Jones is just some no-name boffin toiling pitifully in academia's climate change coal mines, one file in the exposed CRU records reveals that he has collected 13.7 million in grants since 1990.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
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Few cricket players or administrators are drawn from the ranks of scientific boffins.
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In their research, the boffins are working with parasites called filarial nematodes, which can cause conditions such as elephantiasis.
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
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This would also help meet increasing global demand for food, say boffins.
The Sun
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For an even more diverse array of boffinry, try the Beano Annual of science blogging: The Open Laboratory, compiled by Bora "Coturnix" Zivkovic of A Blog Around The Clock.
Archive 2008-11-01
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Then there is the boffin inventor entrepreneur with imagination but no business savvy.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is a day for looking into one's soul - for behaving like one of those virus scanners the boffins have installed on my untrusty laptop.
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The boffins work it out by comparing government tax take with national income.
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There were clues last month but boffins are still unsure.
The Sun
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Some of the initial results of the 2001 Census certainly startled the mathematical boffins.
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BRITISH boffins have produced hot air balloons that are really out of this world.
The Sun
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Cyber-boffins at the University of York have launched a new website to help stargazers get the best views of one of the most mind-blowing of all natural phenomena.
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WOMEN are more likely than men to suffer a bad night's sleep if they hit the booze before bedtime, boffins say.
The Sun
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Three wore the white coats of the back-room boffin, the fourth was diminutive, little more than a boy.
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The team of boffins used the computer to find the period of a mathematical function, one of the basic maths building blocks of modern cryptography, doing so in the equivalent of a single CPU cycle.
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They've split for good, apparently because neither of them could stop boffing anybody they clapped eyes on.
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Oldfield was never conferred with boffin status, unlike his contemporary, Mr Ambient himself, Brian Eno.
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In groundbreaking research Leeds University boffins discovered that men relax in pubs.
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Views: panoramicAuntie tweezers tales of boggling provenance from antique archives; adds F Bruce in provocative knitwearMaximal corporate hubris x incentivised boardroom intransigence = 140% idiotainmentLavish biography infuses wry top notes with curlicues of smoky boffinry.
TV turn-ons and turn-offs
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In March, boffins at the Transport Research Laboratory in Berkshire found that using a mobile phone while driving was more dangerous than being drunk behind the wheel.
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Government boffins have been explaining a new weapon that destroys people but leaves houses intact.
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I've had a number of attractive and nubile young companions, and I must say that thinking about it, I've never actually had any interest in boffing any of them.
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Moves are steaming ahead to honour an Atherton-born boffin whose vision of a high speed hovertrain was dismissed.
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Nasa boffins have declared their intention to hand over control of three satellites to artificial intelligence software.
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But if their hit squad is responsible - another nuclear boffin was bumped off earlier this year - then we should be truly thankful.
The Sun
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Boffins fitted the radiofrequency identification tags on the backs of the rock ants - which grow to 3mm.
The Sun
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Being a boffin, I had access to computers a generation before most people did and I still have a copy of the first program I wrote - in 1967.
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Fertility expert Professor Winston shot to fame as a TV boffin after presenting a string of award-winning BBC science programmes.
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Calling anyone within a 100 yard radius of a petri dish a "boffin".
Word Magazine - Comments
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Maybe the boffins could have detected a trace of irony in the way she said it.
Times, Sunday Times
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His study of the Browning family trade locates the humble apple within a cultural and scientific context, stretching from the boffins mapping its genomes all the way back to Eve.
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Network security breaches and virus attacks are not the realm of only a few teched-up boffins.
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Northern hemisphere boffins are clearing their desks ahead of the summer holidays.
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Then there is the boffin inventor entrepreneur with imagination but no business savvy.
Times, Sunday Times
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The boffins of Imperial College in London think they may have found a solution.
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Perhaps the boffins in the boats at Scapa ought to swallow their compassion and get equally coercive with the whales.
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Checking on the boffin was her first responsibility, a duty she was already late for.
LEVIATHAN
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So say boffins claiming to have carried out the most rigorous dunk test yet.
The Sun
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In connection with a major TV series they are producing about the OED, the BBC has set up a nifty Word Hunt site where readers can help identify the origins and first uses of 50 terms, ranging from "boffin" and "bog standard" to "ska" and "snazzy.
Archive 2005-06-01
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The down-to-earth boffin has been kicking up a stink about excrement studies and grubbing around in old filth for more than 30 years.
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A computer boffin is set to make ￡5million from his revolutionary photo technology.
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Boffins have dug up the right formula for a perfect sandcastle - in the sand on Bridlington beach.
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Linguistic boffins have no problems with a statement like "dim. of BAUGH, from W bychan, hypocoristic form of bach little.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVII No 4
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boffin" is a real account, but there is no indication as to why it is abused in this spam.
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