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Recent Examples of bounder Urías then allowed a high bounder by Yu Chang to get by for a two-base error. Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 Sep. 2021 Austin hit a bounder which filtered through Gandil’s mitt in the eighth. Kori Rumore, chicagotribune.com, 26 Aug. 2020 Though Lance has fun playing a bounder and cad of the first order, the script doesn’t particularly need him. Jonathan Holland, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Nov. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bounder
Noun
  • But in politics — as in life —there’s a fine line between being genuine and being a jerk.
    Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Forbes.com, 9 June 2025
  • Smoky, spicy jerk is also on the menu in the Pulled Jerk Pork & Coconut Shrimp appetizer at Eleanor’s at Sandals Grande Antigua.
    Sandals Resorts, AFAR Media, 4 June 2025
Noun
  • Responding officers found the dog, and advised the owner to take the dog in.
    cleveland, cleveland, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Police brought in hundreds of law enforcement personnel with dogs, armored carriers, horses and helicopters that circled overhead.
    Maryclaire Dale, Marc Levy and Michael Rubinkam, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Sep. 2023
Noun
  • Also, this was not a good week for billionaires as a socialist Muslim won a long-shot victory in the NYC Democratic primary, partly on the promise to raise taxes among the highest income earners, and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos starred in a clown show wedding in Venice.
    Paul Bedard, The Washington Examiner, 28 June 2025
  • Ayanna Pressley, another blow-in-drifter (from Chicago), pole vaulted from the City Council clown show to the U.S. House.
    Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 25 June 2025
Noun
  • Yet Mitchell Robinson, ever the joker, can’t make up his mind.
    Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 23 May 2025
  • Hayden Christensen as Jake Hill Conley Hayden Christensen played Jake Hill Conley, another neighborhood boy known for being a practical joker.
    Samantha Stutsman, People.com, 21 Apr. 2025

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“Bounder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bounder. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.

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