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Recent Examples of slugfest
The expectation is that Suarez will fight to Navarrete’s strengths, pushing forward with a high output and looking to engage in a slugfest.
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Trent Reinsmith, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
With a gem and slugfest now in the rearview, the Yankees will turn their attention to a series victory on Wednesday after Baltimore won a tight opener on Monday.
—Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 29 Apr. 2025
Given the short turnaround from Friday's slugfest, which Doncic struggled through while battling a stomach bug, the young home favorites should be the fresher side on Sunday afternoon.
—Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Apr. 2025
Their last contest was a slugfest – literally – as the Pistons and Minnesota Timberwolves got into a brawl that resulted in multiple ejections.
—Jason D. Greenblatt, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Apr. 2025
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Trent Reinsmith, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
With a gem and slugfest now in the rearview, the Yankees will turn their attention to a series victory on Wednesday after Baltimore won a tight opener on Monday.
—Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 29 Apr. 2025
Given the short turnaround from Friday's slugfest, which Doncic struggled through while battling a stomach bug, the young home favorites should be the fresher side on Sunday afternoon.
—Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Apr. 2025
Their last contest was a slugfest – literally – as the Pistons and Minnesota Timberwolves got into a brawl that resulted in multiple ejections.
—Jason D. Greenblatt, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for slugfest
Noun
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The Dark Ages is more like a line dance that accidentally ends up in a fistfight.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
15 May 2025
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Sasuke and Naruto’s battle in the Final Valley (and its sequel in Shippuden) is one of the most impassioned fistfights ever drawn.—
Kambole Campbell,
Vulture,
25 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Above, a curious duel unfolded: a seagull clashing mid-air with a hovering drone.—
Lee Sharrock,
Forbes.com,
6 June 2025
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Both runners advanced on a wild pitch, but Ureña won a nine-pitch duel with Jeff McNeil, striking out the second baseman with a 97-mph sinker, and Smith picked off Marte at third to complete a rare home-to-third, strike-em-out, throw-em-out double play.—
Mike Digiovanna,
Oc Register,
5 June 2025
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Combine this with the melee weapon and shield rune upgrades, and players have several strategies to survive the demon horde onslaught.—
Gieson Cacho,
Mercury News,
21 May 2025
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If the referee had any lingering doubts about the decision, Motta swiftly removed them by grabbing the back of Busquets’ neck in the ensuing melee.—
Conor O'Neill,
New York Times,
29 Apr. 2025
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Often, when shows do crossovers, the writers on one will do punch-up for their characters on the other.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
4 Jan. 2025
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Toward the end there’s a punch-up, with several players involved.—
David Szalay,
The New Yorker,
1 Dec. 2024
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The lefty was able to work his way out of trouble each time, first striking out Ozuna to end the third before getting a pair of punch-outs to end the fourth after initially putting two on with nobody out.—
Mac Cerullo,
Hartford Courant,
1 June 2025
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Asus chose to have a punch-out camera and obscure part of the screen rather than mount it in a larger bezel, which shows how form has come ahead of function.—
Ewan Spence,
Forbes,
26 Nov. 2024
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In the ensuing violent confrontation, her son is killed.—
Frank Scheck,
HollywoodReporter,
5 June 2025
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The tense confrontation was the latest flashpoint between the Trump administration and Chicago over immigration policies — a potentially ominous sign for what’s ahead for the nation’s third-largest city, which has long been in the president’s crosshairs.—
Alice Yin,
Chicago Tribune,
5 June 2025
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Authorities attempted to limit the violence on the Seaside Heights boardwalk over the holiday weekend by imposing a 10 p.m. curfew on unaccompanied minors, but the brawls continued anyway, WABC reported.—
Joseph Wilkinson,
New York Daily News,
26 May 2025
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No one could agree on whether the brawl of as many as nine young men was limited to fists or if its participants were also kicking and stomping.—
Emerson Clarridge,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
23 May 2025
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Completing the quartet is Justin Withers’ Demetrius, who unleashes his comic chops during a hilarious donnybrook.—
Rob Hubbard,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
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Saturday’s donnybrook at the Horseshoe may not have scared up the massive numbers that last year’s Ohio State-Michigan showdown delivered, but Fox’s broadcast of the 120th installment of The Game still ranks as the college football season’s second-biggest TV draw.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
4 Dec. 2024
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“Slugfest.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slugfest. Accessed 13 Jun. 2025.
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