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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.
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Charles Baggarly
may 7, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 May 2026
Charles Baggarly
may 7, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shutouts
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Friday night’s opening ceremonies in Los Angeles and Toronto were two of three blowouts FIFA organized for the opening matches of the 2026 World Cup.—
Rolling Stone,
Rolling Stone,
12 June 2026
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That usually means a team will play harder, the next game, but there have been an alarming number of blowouts this season in the league.—
David Troy OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
8 June 2026
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The two subsequent washouts have given Sri Lanka a 1-0 series victory.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
8 June 2026
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There will be several chances for rain across Maryland Wednesday through early next week, but none of the days are looking like washouts.—
Cutter Martin,
CBS News,
6 May 2026
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Earthquakes' sudden, rapid shaking can cause fires, tsunamis, landslides or avalanches.—
CA Earthquake Bot,
Sacbee.com,
16 June 2026
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Costa Rican authorities have issued a nationwide green alert, warning that an intensifying rainy season and a developing Pacific low-pressure system threaten to trigger even more catastrophic landslides.—
Sarah Rumpf-Whitten,
FOXNews.com,
15 June 2026
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Moscow’s efforts to recruit students for its own expert drone units have been mired in distrust and setbacks, according to Stepanenko, after Russia’s Ministry of Defense committed some drone operators to frontline ground assaults.—
Lauren Kent,
CNN Money,
14 June 2026
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That aside, there has been precious little obvious progress and some notable setbacks.—
Anand Menon,
Time,
13 June 2026
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Twenty-nine of its 32 victories this season are sweeps.—
Pioneer Press,
Twin Cities,
10 June 2026
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The 2014 World Cup brought a third match-up with the United States but Ghana were unable to complete a trilogy of victories, and their tournament ended in chaotic fashion.—
Carl Anka,
New York Times,
10 June 2026
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Contained within all these fiascoes is a subtly different conservative movement.—
Benjamin Wallace-Wells,
New Yorker,
26 Apr. 2026
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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
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Twenty-nine of its 32 victories this season are sweeps.—
Pioneer Press,
Twin Cities,
10 June 2026
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Encampment sweeps can also sever the relationship between residents experiencing homelessness and outreach workers, particularly because many people living outside lack identification, phones, or other reliable ways to stay in touch.—
Philip Wang,
Time,
9 June 2026
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Otherwise, the Democrats’ showing in the campaign has amounted to a pileup of debacles.—
Mark Leibovich,
The Atlantic,
4 June 2026
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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
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“Shutouts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shutouts. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
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