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The slugger has hit 187 home runs in four years with the Phillies, including a career-high 56 this past season.
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Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 4 Oct. 2025
Hallmark has discontinued its Joyous F-bomb Collection, so the fiery slugger may want to go the handmade route.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Seitzer finished second to A’s slugger Mark McGwire in the 1987 A.L. Rookie of the Year vote.
—Laurence Miedema, Mercury News, 2 Oct. 2025
Toronto slugger George Springer, who celebrated his 36th birthday on Friday, hit a leadoff home run off Royals starter Michael Lorenzen.
—Kansas City Star, 20 Sep. 2025
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Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 4 Oct. 2025
Hallmark has discontinued its Joyous F-bomb Collection, so the fiery slugger may want to go the handmade route.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Seitzer finished second to A’s slugger Mark McGwire in the 1987 A.L. Rookie of the Year vote.
—Laurence Miedema, Mercury News, 2 Oct. 2025
Toronto slugger George Springer, who celebrated his 36th birthday on Friday, hit a leadoff home run off Royals starter Michael Lorenzen.
—Kansas City Star, 20 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for slugger
Noun
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The mantis shrimp is nature’s high-speed boxer with multi-spectral vision, a creature that hits faster than a bullet’s acceleration and sees the unseen.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
17 Oct. 2025
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Hatton’s funeral took place in Hyde last Friday, with thousands lining the streets and former boxers Tyson Fury, Tony Bellew, Frank Bruno and Amir Khan among those in attendance.—
Daniel Taylor,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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Why Exit Planning Can’t Wait Returning to our boxing metaphor, a big plot point of Rocky IV centers on the pugilist’s unease with complacency.—
Michael Ashley,
Forbes.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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She is next slated to appear in the boxing drama Christy, based on the life of real professional pugilist Christy Martin.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
14 Aug. 2025
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Most people participating in American warrior culture are not prizefighters, of course, and relatively few are veterans.—
Dan Brooks,
The Atlantic,
2 Oct. 2025
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Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson as Balrog Curtis Jackson, best known as 50 Cent, will play Balrog, the boxer initially modeled on real-life prizefighter Mike Tyson.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
6 Sep. 2025
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Don’t be a palooka, start Nacua.—
Bill Reinhard,
New York Daily News,
12 Dec. 2024
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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
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There will be plenty for both returning fans and those who are entering the ludus (gladiator school) for the first time, including the intrigue, battle scenes, deception and lots of Jupiter’s expletives, all of which made the original series a hit for Starz.—
Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
13 Oct. 2025
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That is gladiators without swords.—
DeMicia Inman,
VIBE.com,
8 Oct. 2025
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Despite his high drive, Whiskie also embraces his pug side.—
Maria Azzurra Volpe,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Oct. 2025
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Pugsley is a pug wearing a fez.—
Rebecca Alter,
Vulture,
2 Oct. 2025
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“Slugger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slugger. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.
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