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slap

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Recent Examples of slap
Verb
Driving up the right wing on a 2-on-1 break, Michaels slapped a shot inside the far post. John Wawrow, Chicago Tribune, 13 Apr. 2025 This time, Daniels had slapped Brunson’s finger ever so slightly. Fred Katz, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2025
Noun
Two minutes later, Pastrnak redirected a slap pass from Morgan Geekie into the net to tie it 2-all. Jimmy Golen, Baltimore Sun, 2 Apr. 2025 Closing the door to these studios during the extreme hype of a console’s launch window would be a slap to the face. Jason Evangelho, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for slap
Recent Examples of Synonyms for slap
Verb
  • Then with two outs, Amed Rosario smacked an RBI single.
    Steve Gorten, Miami Herald, 13 Apr. 2025
  • Once the screen comes, Dort smacked his inside leg into Hayes’ outside one.
    Fred Katz, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Richie's wife verbally attacks Maeve, even stooping so low as to look her up and down and insult her appearance.
    Matt Cabral, EW.com, 27 Apr. 2025
  • Have you guys been insulting each other publicly for decades?
    Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 27 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • With a blow of his whistle, all sorts of words applied: pandemonium, euphoria, mania.
    Simon Hughes, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2025
  • What’s 42 to 43? Into a black place of great blows from the little mountains from the sea came.
    John Berryman, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The match began with Uso and Gunther going back and forth with each Superstar hitting their signature moves.
    Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Apr. 2025
  • Tire tread depth - Checking your tire tread before hitting the road is important, as low or no tread can lead to sliding.
    STAR-TELEGRAM WEATHER BOT, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • But in a world where Chrome is castigated as the worst offending mainstream browser for privacy and tracking, this will land flat.
    Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2025
  • The Supreme Court justices sounded ready on Tuesday to give parents a constitutional right to opt out of public school lessons for their children that offend their religious beliefs.
    David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Rami Sinno is crouched beside a filing cabinet, wrestling a beach-ball sized disc out of a box, when a dull thump echoes around his laboratory.
    Billy Perrigo, Time, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Then the silence was broken by the loud thump of Olive’s .38/40.
    Horace R. Hinkley, Outdoor Life, 19 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • There’s a certain Egyptian sarcasm and dark humor that is all over my family.
    Lulu Garcia-Navarro, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2025
  • His sarcasm is well-placed: Whatever is discussed between business leaders and the governor using these phones will be shielded from the public, says a McGeorge School of Law adjunct professor who has worked as a lobbyist in the California Capitol.
    The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 4 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • That trend already spiraled into real-world hostility in 2024; while the song played at a bar in Germany, a crowd reportedly yelled slurs at a Black woman and punched her in the face, with one man allegedly Nazi-saluting.
    Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 30 Apr. 2025
  • With that win, Niemann punched his ticket to Oakmont for the U.S. Open.
    Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Apr. 2025

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“Slap.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slap. Accessed 3 May. 2025.

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