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our candidate trounced her opponent in the election, winning with 76% of the vote
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For months, polls have shown Bardella trouncing President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist Renaissance party by a wide margin, his celebrity exploding as the E.U. campaign began.
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TIME, 15 May 2024
Bottoms will be robbed of the opportunity to trounce The Flash in the Best Fight category.
—Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 13 May 2024
Over more than three decades, his returns consistently trounced markets even as computer power got cheaper and competitors tried their best to mimic Renaissance’s success by building their own complex algorithms to run their funds.
—Patrick Oster, Fortune, 10 May 2024
Bernie Sanders trounced Hillary Clinton in West Virginia’s 2016 Democratic primary.
—Dan Kaufman, The New Yorker, 9 May 2024
This marks Disney’s first quarterly earnings report since Iger trounced activist investor Nelson Peltz in a proxy fight, in which Peltz had sought a board seat.
—Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2024
Pro 360 handily trounced by the discrete-GPU systems across our graphics tests.
—PCMAG, 5 May 2024
Six weeks ago, Inter Miami was trounced 4-0 on the road to the Red Bulls for their worst loss of the season.
—Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 5 May 2024
One of Modi’s successes has been not just to trounce the Congress Party but also to persuade people that the party has weakened India and emasculated its Hindus.
—Samanth Subramanian Vikas Adam Tanya Pérez Zachary Mouton, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2024
TIME, 15 May 2024
Bottoms will be robbed of the opportunity to trounce The Flash in the Best Fight category.
—Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 13 May 2024
Over more than three decades, his returns consistently trounced markets even as computer power got cheaper and competitors tried their best to mimic Renaissance’s success by building their own complex algorithms to run their funds.
—Patrick Oster, Fortune, 10 May 2024
Bernie Sanders trounced Hillary Clinton in West Virginia’s 2016 Democratic primary.
—Dan Kaufman, The New Yorker, 9 May 2024
This marks Disney’s first quarterly earnings report since Iger trounced activist investor Nelson Peltz in a proxy fight, in which Peltz had sought a board seat.
—Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2024
Pro 360 handily trounced by the discrete-GPU systems across our graphics tests.
—PCMAG, 5 May 2024
Six weeks ago, Inter Miami was trounced 4-0 on the road to the Red Bulls for their worst loss of the season.
—Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 5 May 2024
One of Modi’s successes has been not just to trounce the Congress Party but also to persuade people that the party has weakened India and emasculated its Hindus.
—Samanth Subramanian Vikas Adam Tanya Pérez Zachary Mouton, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2024
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“Trounce.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trounce. Accessed 21 May. 2024.
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trounce
verb
trounced; trouncing
: to thrash or punish severely
especially
: to defeat thoroughly
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