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Recent Examples of battler
The second reason is that these aura battler designs were very complex and full of curves as well as weird angles.
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Ollie Barder, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025
The Scot finished last season aiming to emulate Nottingham Forest’s rise from relegation battler to European contender.
—Patrick Boyland, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2025
Ollie Barder, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025
The Scot finished last season aiming to emulate Nottingham Forest’s rise from relegation battler to European contender.
—Patrick Boyland, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for battler
Noun
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The Rangers have other outfielders in camp, including veterans Sam Haggerty, a switch-hitter who is very good from the right side against lefties, Mark Canha and fellow scrapper Michael Helman.—
Evan Grant,
Dallas Morning News,
20 Feb. 2026
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But Everton, during that period, were little more than relegation scrappers, thanks to two significant points deductions in Dyche’s two seasons at the club.—
Michael Cox,
New York Times,
11 Feb. 2026
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Boko Haram has since become stronger, with thousands of fighters and different factions, including the Islamic State West Africa Province, which is backed by the Islamic State group.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
18 Mar. 2026
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Jamie Foxx leads the film, based on the true story of the devastating 1980 plane crash which claimed the lives of America’s Olympic boxing team, leading a determined coach to take on the monumental task of assembling and training new fighters for glory at the 1984 games.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
17 Mar. 2026
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In the movie, Kay becomes involved with the young Ping-Pong hustler Marty Mauser, played by Timothée Chalamet.—
Naomi Fry,
New Yorker,
14 Mar. 2026
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In the band’s heyday, Anthony Kiedis, with his bare torso and long girlish copper-blond hair, looked like a ’70s teen idol who’d become a Warhol hustler – a street-flesh god like Joe Dallesandro, except that where Dallesandro was in a daze, Kiedis was a live wire.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
13 Mar. 2026
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“Battler.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/battler. Accessed 21 Mar. 2026.
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