as in body blow
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Recent Examples of rabbit punch
Letters To The Editor, Orlando Sentinel, 2 July 2024
Noun
Before your boss could match dance steps to the music, his opponent was already kicking him in the groin and throwing rabbit punches.
—Letters To The Editor, Orlando Sentinel, 2 July 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rabbit punch
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This time, the Blackhawks put up a spirited fight, but couldn’t deliver the body blow to San Jose’s chances, falling 3-2 in a free-flowing and fun showdown between two of the league’s youngest teams.—
Mark Lazerus,
New York Times,
7 Apr. 2026
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The image of Pages making the catch, as Kiké Hernandez absorbs a body blow, is already seared into Dodgers lore.—
Doug Padilla,
Oc Register,
8 Mar. 2026
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Big man Neemias Queta even got in on the action for Boston, knocking down his first career 3 to go along with 10 rebounds.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
10 Apr. 2026
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If voters ever knock down the tax, it cannot be reinstated.—
Chris Higgins,
Kansas City Star,
8 Apr. 2026
Verb
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To control them and tool them apply a growth regulator called sucker punch to the suckers.—
Steve Bender,
Southern Living,
1 Apr. 2026
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Like a boxer playing rope-a-dope, the away side absorbed much of what Arsenal had to throw at them in the first half and were unlucky not to have provided their own sucker punch after Dwight McNeil had two excellent chances in quick succession.—
Mark Carey,
New York Times,
16 Mar. 2026
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The senior blasted a shot from 20 yards out from a sharp angle to the left to the top right corner to tie the game 2-2.—
Charles Baggarly & Darren Lauber,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
11 Apr. 2026
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In the two years since, Tisza has completely eclipsed Hungary’s old institutional opposition—a fractured gamut ranging from the far right to the left.—
Kapil Komireddi,
New Yorker,
10 Apr. 2026
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Among our favorite combinations are black with white, beige with black, and cream with brown.—
René Chávez Esparza,
Glamour,
30 Mar. 2026
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The Ticket Boston creamed The Stars took it to the Bruins the last time these two teams met with a 6-2 romp in Dallas, in a game that, funnily enough, ended a losing skid for the Stars.—
SportsDay Staff,
Dallas Morning News,
30 Mar. 2026
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The season-ending reveal — Annette as the crime boss — is a big swing.—
Kennedy French,
Variety,
11 Apr. 2026
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The Sky could take a major swing on the trade market to kick off free agency this week.—
Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
11 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Parker said a subcontractor working at the parking garage was in the process of installing precast concrete flooring, decking and roofing segments, and one of them failed.—
Tom Dougherty,
CBS News,
9 Apr. 2026
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Concertgoers wore thigh-high boots, rocked Cardi B’s classic schoolgirl look, and decked themselves out in homemade clothes.—
Jolene Almendarez,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
20 Mar. 2026
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The main problem, lawyers previously told CBS News, is that the FACE Act fundamentally misstates the rights people have under the First Amendment.—
Sarah N. Lynch,
CBS News,
14 Apr. 2026
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Universal Pictures later snapped up the rights, with Constance Wu attached to star (though the adaptation now sits in development hell).—
Mariella Rudi,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Apr. 2026
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