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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of poof.

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Examples

  • Lots of decisions that they had to face here, and that was this blanket, this so-called poofed-out blanket.

    CNN Transcript Aug 5, 2005 2005

  • The lady was as old as the first ladies I described, but looked much younger, and had "poofed" hair, but it was long hair that was "up", and had been teased a little to give it fullness around her face.

    Home Living 2009

  • And incorrect logic leads to incorrect conclusions like the univere "poofed" into existence from nothing!!

    Dawkins and ID 2008

  • Presumably Jesus had a Y chromosome, "poofed" in at the moment of conception.

    Male and Female He Created Them? James F. McGrath 2009

  • According to Behe an irreducible system must either be "poofed" during a single generation, or a non-viable organism must exist during the interim.

    Behe and Theistic Evolution 2007

  • Theistic evolutionists have no need for IC systems and neither do we feel a need for them to be 'poofed' in by a miracle as Behe admits.

    The Memory Hole 2005

  • Có là, nhỏ hơn thiên hà dày đặc hơn ở trung tâm của vòng tròn, và vòng hình thành sao xanh được "poofed" ra từ vụ va chạm này.

    ideonexus.com »2004» Tháng Tư 2004

  • It is shameful, but not at all surprising, that conservatives think the field of somatic cell reprogramming was just "poofed" into existence.

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2009

  • It is shameful, but not at all surprising, that conservatives think the field of somatic cell reprogramming was just "poofed" into existence.

    Planet Atheism 2009

  • They are called puffballs because as they age, the mushroom grows from pure white interior flesh (most species are edible and bland to delicious at this state) to yellowish (not good eating at that point) to masses of puffy spores that can be '' poofed '' out the top of the mushroom in a puff of dark, dry spores (don't try to eat these at this point).

    unknown title 2009

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