battler

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Recent Examples of battler 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
  • Lee is sixty-one years old, a scrapper with a potent backstory.
    E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 4 June 2025
  • Similarly, Kiki vacillates between a broad figure of oblivious privilege, not that far removed from Moore’s The Big Lebowski heiress, and a scrapper who feels just as insecure in this place as either sister.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 22 May 2025
Noun
  • The parade, watched by thousands of people in Beijing and broadcast live, showcased ranks of marching soldiers, missiles, modern fighter jets and other military might as China seeks to wield greater influence on the global stage.
    Robert Birsel, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The former pro wrestler stars as MMA fighter Mark Kerr, who weathers ups and downs alongside his wife, Dawn (Emily Blunt), to become a champion.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • So what separates the side hustles earning perpetual income from the rest, and what should aspiring e-commerce side-hustlers expect along the way?
    Rytis Lauris, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Relations were strained but ultimately peaceful between the families until the wild and unpredictable hustler Baroness Eloise Wehrborn de Wagner-Bosquet (Ana de Armas) and her two lovers, Rudy Lorenz (Felix Kammerer) and Robert Phillipson (Toby Wallace), showed up.
    EW.com, EW.com, 23 Aug. 2025

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“Battler.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/battler. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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