Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rabbit-punching
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Brunson didn’t have a good start to this game, knocking down his opening three-pointer to begin the game and going 0-of-6 from there in the first quarter.—
Scott Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
4 June 2026 -
That featured Sprewell scoring 35 of their 77 points and Johnson knocking down the deciding shot with 47 seconds left.—
Zach Harper,
New York Times,
3 June 2026
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Advertisement In the fight, Ruben begins to strangle Niall, though Niall protects himself by stabbing Ruben in the side with a knife.—
Barry Levitt,
Time,
29 May 2026
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The 23-year-old man was suicidal and held a butcher’s knife to his own throat before charging at officers and stabbing both Officer Mark Moore and a police dog at an Aurora apartment complex.—
Shelly Bradbury,
Denver Post,
28 May 2026
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As the plane taxied down the runway, the toilet started dumping out brown sewage water, Bharucha said.—
Sam Tabachnik,
Denver Post,
1 June 2026
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There’s also a second 25-meter pool, while the children’s pool features a splash pad and elaborate play structure topped by a giant blue bucket dumping water periodically.—
Martha Ross,
Mercury News,
28 May 2026
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White portrayed it as the natural result of two highly competitive personalities pushing each other.—
Alejandro Avila,
FOXNews.com,
2 June 2026
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While training large models requires mass amounts of parallel math — excellent work for a GPU — accessing that data and pushing it out to multiple agents requires more general compute offered by a CPU.—
Katie Tarasov,
CNBC,
1 June 2026
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Later switching to the Chicago Sports Network, King became beloved as a studio analyst.—
Adam Harrington,
CBS News,
7 June 2026
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Yung-Shin Kung said that CTAs had captured the rally in precious metals, primarily silver and gold, at the beginning of the year, before switching to industrial metals that are poised to benefit from AI infrastructure investment and supply constraints caused by the Iran war.—
Hugh Leask,
CNBC,
5 June 2026
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The man then raised up the stick and struck the church-going victim in the head before slashing her neck.—
Kerry Burke,
New York Daily News,
2 June 2026
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The energy regulator signed off on the preferential electricity tariff for Glencore’s local venture and Samancor Chrome, slashing power prices by over 50% from the standard baseline.—
Tiisetso Motsoeneng,
semafor.com,
1 June 2026
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On a cool Saturday night at UC San Diego, Romero staged a hitting clinic, clubbing a single, double and home run and knocking in two runs to lead Mater Dei Catholic to a 5-3 win over Point Loma to win its second straight Open Division championship.—
Don Norcross,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
31 May 2026
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Tilley was a close friend of Bowery’s after meeting while out clubbing, and in 2025 wrote his biography.—
Leah Dolan,
CNN Money,
30 May 2026
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The arched windows mirror the city’s grand historic buildings while brass elements and flooring nod to the golden age of American retailing.—
Jean E. Palmieri,
Footwear News,
27 May 2026
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There’s a tendency to represent the dive as reckless, as though the peregrine is doing the equivalent of flooring the accelerator and hoping for the best.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
24 May 2026
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“Rabbit-punching.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rabbit-punching. Accessed 9 Jun. 2026.
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