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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A few science boffins were asked for their opinions, but otherwise the article gave very little information.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Government boffins have been explaining a new weapon that destroys people but leaves houses intact.
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Oldfield was never conferred with boffin status, unlike his contemporary, Mr Ambient himself, Brian Eno.
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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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The boffin claims to be able to lower bust-up ratios by analysing responses to statements about their lifestyles.
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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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This was contrary to the opinion of the world and society which thought of him as a boffin .
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Three wore the white coats of the back-room boffin , the fourth was diminutive, little more than a boy.