slugger

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Recent Examples of slugger The left-handed slugger went 4 for 5 with a home run and three RBIs in an 11-8 win against Vista Murrieta. Dan Albano, Oc Register, 27 May 2026 Playing with passion and joy, Rikuu Nishida will join Chicago White Sox slugger, Munetaka Murakami as two very good Japanese players with different skill sets, and a desire to play winning baseball. Bernie Pleskoff, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026 Yordan Alvarez homered twice, including a three-run shot that went 449 feet, to give the slugger 18 this season, and Cam Smith had his fifth on a solo shot that cut Houston's deficit to 9-6 in the eighth. ABC News, 26 May 2026 The Seattle Mariners intentionally walked slumping Royals slugger Vinnie Pasquantino to load the bases with two outs. Jaylon Thompson may 24, Kansas City Star, 24 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for slugger
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Noun
  • The storytelling is as important as the mise-en-scène—the bar is named for the poet-boxer Arthur Cravan, who spent his life cultivating a mysterious, unconventional persona.
    Mary Winston Nicklin, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 June 2026
  • Gone Now, except now its jabs are pointed downward and the boxer is married to a movie star.
    Walden Green, Pitchfork, 30 May 2026
Noun
  • In terms of skippers, our Frank Selee might rightly be considered more philosopher than a pugilist.
    Tyler Estep, AJC.com, 6 May 2026
  • But a patient pugilist values the muffled thud of shots to the resolve.
    Marcus Thompson II, New York Times, 5 May 2026
Noun
  • The explosive jazz‑rock pianist – known for redefining piano performance with the physicality of a prizefighter and the swagger of a rock guitarist – is set to turn the DIA’s auditorium into something closer to a sonic combustion chamber.
    Duante Beddingfield, Freep.com, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Mustafa Fteja, 54, pleaded guilty in Brooklyn Federal Court Thursday to obstructing justice, admitting to playing a key role in the bribery plot, which threw Gogic’s trial into disarray and landed the prizefighter’s lawyer in the crosshairs of a federal investigation.
    John Annese, New York Daily News, 19 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Don’t be a palooka, start Nacua.
    Bill Reinhard, New York Daily News, 12 Dec. 2024
  • One year after the Academy bafflingly ignored his work in Sideways, Giamatti finally scored his first Oscar nomination for his purely entertaining performance as boxing manager Joe Gould in Ron Howard’s proudly old-fashioned Depression-era palooka drama.
    A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2024
Noun
  • Cussing in a gladiator sport like football shouldn’t draw much attention.
    Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 27 May 2026
  • Across the foot and ankle, adjustable leather straps wrapped through silver-tone hardware, while a tall shield-like panel rose over the front of the foot and up the shin, giving the sandal a gladiator shape pushed through Owens’ industrial lens.
    Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 26 May 2026
Noun
  • Sleepy pugs and a return Rinker’s family stayed in a Huntington Beach hotel room with one bed.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2026
  • More specifically, Wellhouse brings in the boxy, pug-nosed Wake micro-van produced by Daihatsu between 2014 and 2022 and also badged as the Toyota Pixis Mega.
    C.C. Weiss May 26, New Atlas, 26 May 2026

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“Slugger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slugger. Accessed 6 Jun. 2026.

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