shutouts

noun

plural of shutout
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as in conquests

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as in washouts

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Recent Examples of shutouts Riley Bell, Senior, Crowley Bell earned District 3-6A Goalkeeper of the Year and TASCO First Team All Region honors, recording 207 saves and five shutouts on the season, including 125 saves and one shutout in district play alone. — Charles Baggarly may 7, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shutouts
  1. blowouts
  2. washouts
  3. landslides
  4. setbacks
  5. victories
  6. fiascoes
  7. sweeps
  8. debacles
Noun
  • The Article Labor Day sale ranks high among my favorite furniture blowouts to shop, especially during a time when there’s no shortage of genuinely good deals.
    — Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 27 Aug. 2026
  • There is also a sliding points scale tied to IRL points allowed, which starts at 10 points for shutouts and drops to -10 for blowouts.
    — Sports Betting, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of blowouts
Noun
  • But in a world where a few basis points separates legends from washouts, a 10-point edge is an enormous windfall for anyone who trusted Kalshi’s numbers over those crunched by CME, the giant futures-exchange operator.
    — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 6 Aug. 2026
  • The two subsequent washouts have given Sri Lanka a 1-0 series victory.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 8 June 2026
Definition of washouts
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  • The debris created by the various landslides have also blocked nine hydropower tunnels in Nepal's Rasuwa and Nuwakot districts, trapping 933 workers from Nepal, South Korea and China.
    — Mamita Bhandari, NPR, 31 Aug. 2026
  • The number of people confirmed killed after propulsive landslides tore through the Nepal-China border on Wednesday now exceeds 900.
    — Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of landslides
Noun
  • Trump has placed tariffs at the center of his agenda throughout his second term in the White House, though his use of the economic tool has faced some major legal setbacks and stoked heated pushback from other countries.
    — Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 25 Aug. 2026
  • Instead, the program faced regulatory hurdles, technical setbacks, and noise complaints from residents.
    — Tatiana Sataua, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of setbacks
Noun
  • Van Gisbergen, the road-course ace with seven victories the past two seasons, finished 28th.
    — Jeff Gluck, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2026
  • That 46-footer amassed an enviable racing résumé over successive decades, including multiple victories in the Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac, the Silver Jubilee Series, and the Queen’s Cup.
    — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 30 Aug. 2026
Definition of victories
Noun
  • Contained within all these fiascoes is a subtly different conservative movement.
    — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 26 Apr. 2026
  • Trump is the most corrupt and scandal-plagued president since Nixon; indeed, his fiascoes eclipse Nixon’s, but many of them remain mostly or somewhat hidden, thanks in part to a much more acquiescent Republican Congress than the one Nixon had.
    — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 8 Apr. 2026
Definition of fiascoes
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  • The hottest team this side of Philadelphia is in Kansas City, where the Royals have won eight in a row, thanks to consecutive sweeps of the A’s and Tigers.
    — Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026
  • Recent sweeps have focused on payment terminals at stores and ATMs where skimming activity is suspected.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of sweeps
Noun
  • Otherwise, the Democrats’ showing in the campaign has amounted to a pileup of debacles.
    — Mark Leibovich, The Atlantic, 4 June 2026
  • The one tiny potential upside of the populist movement was its apparent reluctance to plunge the nation into foreign debacles.
    — Steven Greenhut, Oc Register, 6 Mar. 2026
Definition of debacles

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“Shutouts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shutouts. Accessed 1 Sep. 2026.

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