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Recent Examples of slugger
Through 22 games, the slugger has compiled 1.5 fWAR.
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Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 21 Apr. 2025
This wasn’t the first sports role for Haysbert, whose breakthrough role was superstitious slugger Pedro Serrano in Major League (1989).
—EW.com, 21 Apr. 2025
Of the multiple Ohtani bobbleheads given away at Dodger Stadium, one even features the slugger with his dog Decoy.
—Dan Schlossberg, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
The slugger hit 24 home runs in 114 games last season, then homered seven times during a red-hot postseason.
—Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 16 Apr. 2025
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Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 21 Apr. 2025
This wasn’t the first sports role for Haysbert, whose breakthrough role was superstitious slugger Pedro Serrano in Major League (1989).
—EW.com, 21 Apr. 2025
Of the multiple Ohtani bobbleheads given away at Dodger Stadium, one even features the slugger with his dog Decoy.
—Dan Schlossberg, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
The slugger hit 24 home runs in 114 games last season, then homered seven times during a red-hot postseason.
—Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 16 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for slugger
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As a professional boxer, Holm, 43, compiled a 33-2 record with 9 KOs.—
Brian Mazique,
Forbes.com,
14 May 2025
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Jordan is an executive producer on the project, which is set in the Delphi Gym and will follow young boxers who train there.—
Joe Otterson,
Variety,
13 May 2025
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Bernthal, with his handsome pugilist’s profile, plays Braxton’s emotions explosively close to the surface.—
Tom Gliatto,
People.com,
25 Apr. 2025
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Eriksen can be a skilled on-ball creator but is more poet than pugilist when competing for loose balls.—
Carl Anka,
The Athletic,
17 Mar. 2025
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In the next scene, the boy is no longer dressed like a prizefighter, but in street clothes with a teddy bear sticking out of his backpack, embracing his parents.—
Cara Lynn Shultz,
People.com,
7 Feb. 2025
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Buffalo this year was the prizefighter dropping his gloves, sticking out his chin and daring any of three opponents to land a haymaker.—
Tim Graham,
The Athletic,
7 Jan. 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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The Drop Samantha Flat Strappy Lace-Up Sandal More than 100 shoppers have added these strappy gladiator sandals to their Amazon carts in the past month alone.—
Mia Huelsbeck,
People.com,
8 May 2025
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However, because the Romans cremated their dead for many years, archaeologists have not found many gladiator bodies.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
28 Apr. 2025
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These include basset hounds; beagles; bulldogs; cavalier king Charles spaniels; collies; golden retrievers; Labrador retrievers; papillons; and pugs.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
20 Mar. 2025
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Teen escapes 12 years after abduction; school bus driver arrested 8 killed in mass shooting at strip mall in cartel stronghold Former My Chemical Romance drummer Bob Bryar dead at 44 2024 National Dog Show won by Vito the pug.—
Emily Mae Czachor,
CBS News,
2 Dec. 2024
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“Slugger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slugger. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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