scorer

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Recent Examples of scorer Sparks guard Kelsey Plum, the WNBA’s leading scorer, missed the game with a lower leg injury. Jordan Puente, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2026 Messi, who turns 39 next week, tied Miroslav Klose as the top scorer at a men’s World Cup with 16 goals and became the first player to score in five consecutive World Cups. Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 18 June 2026 The quintessential goal scorer does not freeze. Eric Zillmer, The Conversation, 18 June 2026 After a stagnant first half, Mbappe clicked into gear despite being denied a penalty, and his long-range second goal took him past Olivier Giroud as France’s all-time top scorer. Tim Spiers, New York Times, 17 June 2026 Murphy also passed Nadine Muzerall to become the Gopher’s all-time leading goal scorer with 143. Theodore Tollefson, Twin Cities, 17 June 2026 The win created a surge of attention for women's hockey in North America, with Knight and gold medal-clinching goal-scorer Megan Keller appearing on Saturday Night Live. ABC News, 17 June 2026 Messi, who turns thirty-nine in a week, is now tied as the all-time leading goal-scorer in World Cup history—and this year’s tournament is just getting started. Patricia Marx, New Yorker, 17 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scorer
Noun
  • Mike Brown, a low-ego orchestrator on the sidelines who did what Hall of Famers like Pat Riley, Larry Brown and Mike D’Antoni could not.
    Mike Vorkunov, New York Times, 14 June 2026
  • Connected Intelligence is designed to carry context, knowledge and automation across meetings, messaging, contact center and workplace experiences, with Webex positioned as an orchestrator for those experiences.
    Melody Brue, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
Noun
  • Mary Mitchell-Campbell, who received the Tonys’ Isabelle Stevenson Award for philanthropic or advocacy work, is a respected musical arranger and music director.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 8 June 2026
  • At times during his bombastic, table-shaking, enigmatic career, the singer, arranger, musician, and producer came off as a restless indie artist masquerading as a multiplatinum megastar.
    Keith Murphy, VIBE.com, 7 June 2026
Noun
  • Before that, a preconcert panel of Price scholars and current CSO composer-in-residence Jessie Montgomery discussed the symphonist’s remarkable life and even more remarkable music.
    Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2022
  • A decade after basing a whole festival on Bruckner and minimalist master John Adams, Franz Welser-Most Thursday night at Severance Music Center juxtaposed the grand Austrian symphonist with Arnold Schoenberg, the father of serialism.
    Zachary Lewis, cleveland, 25 Feb. 2022

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“Scorer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scorer. Accessed 20 Jun. 2026.

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