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slug

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noun (2)

slug

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verb

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of slug
Noun
Now, everyone loves slug and homers and power and stuff like that, which is great. Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 6 June 2025 Between 2019 and 2024, the RSNs formerly housed under the Diamond Sports Group banner lost as many as 25 million subscribers, and with an annual churn rate of 12%, the traditional cable/satellite/telco-TV bundle is shrinking like a salted slug. Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 2 May 2025
Verb
The team is currently 28th in slugging (.356), 28th in batting average (.222), 29th in on-base percentage (.283), 27th in runs (209). Mac Engel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 June 2025 Nancy chases Lori throughout the house, but Lori slugs her with the blunt end of a trophy, leaving her to bleed out on the carpet. Randall Colburn, EW.com, 23 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for slug
Recent Examples of Synonyms for slug
Verb
  • On the witness stand, Ventura described Combs stomping on her face in the back of an Escalade in 2009 and kicking and punching her repeatedly over the years.
    Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 27 June 2025
  • Following this method ensures deer make it into the plot before dark, which is an obvious prerequisite to punching a tag.
    Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 26 June 2025
Verb
  • If approved, the settlement would be among the largest in a wave of lawsuits over the past decade as governments and others sought to hold drugmakers, wholesalers and pharmacies accountable for the opioid epidemic that started rising in the years after OxyContin hit the market in 1996.
    Geoff Mulvihill, Fortune, 18 June 2025
  • One eyewitness, Mohammed Abu Abed, said that a group of people was hit by an airstrike.
    Kara Fox, CNN Money, 18 June 2025
Verb
  • These nimble vehicles are built to precise specs, and capturing racing footage from the driver's point of view isn't as simple as slapping a GoPro on and calling it a day.
    Julian Chokkattu, Wired News, 16 June 2025
  • The experience was shared on Reddit, where the passenger detailed how the person seated behind him, in first class nonetheless, repeatedly tapped and slapped the person's head and hat to awaken him to help retrieve a lost earbud.
    Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 12 June 2025
Verb
  • The Giants haven’t had a 30-homer hitter in a single season since Bonds smacked 45 in 2004.
    Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 16 June 2025
  • In testing with a dozen real-world examples of ransomware, Bitdefender smacked down all but one.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 9 June 2025
Verb
  • Marc Lopez, a former prosecutor who is currently a defense attorney specializing in domestic violence and drunk driving cases in Indianapolis, said there are very few circumstances in which an officer will knock on your door out of nowhere and need to get inside.
    Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 18 June 2025
  • Immediately after being traded and added to the team’s group chat, the chirps started flying. Bennett, who knocked Marchand out of a couple games of the playoffs last year with a controversial hit, was the first victim.
    Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 18 June 2025
Verb
  • Sanders slams corporations, CEOs At the heart of the issues in America’s political climate, Sanders said, is an immense concentration of wealth among a select few corporations and people.
    Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 June 2025
  • But the door slammed shut following three straight losses.
    Nick Crain, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
Verb
  • Instead of the Apple logo sitting dead-center in the circle, the suggestion is that a partial circle will be deployed, so as not to bang into the logo.
    David Phelan, Forbes.com, 29 June 2025
  • Similar to Wednesday’s match in the same stadium against Manchester City, the Wydad supporters chanted loudly, banged their drums, and even threw a few flares onto the field, not far from goalkeeper Benabid (see below) following Lorch’s goal in the 25th minute.
    Steve Madeley, New York Times, 22 June 2025
Verb
  • The left-hander got pounded a year ago and thumped again in his first taste of big-league action for eight runs in five innings against the Washington Nationals.
    Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 26 June 2025
  • Kamala Harris pounded Joe Biden over his stances on busing from the 1970s—a long-ago dispute that even became fodder for J.D. Vance in 2024.
    Andrew Yang, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 June 2025

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“Slug.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slug. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.

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