slugger

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Recent Examples of slugger In 2020, he was hurt while trying to snare a foul ball hit by slugger Shohei Ohtani. Chuck Murr, Forbes.com, 7 June 2025 Roberts kidded Ohtani about gifting him when the modest record was inevitably broken, and the new Dodgers slugger obliged with the toy. Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2025 The junior sluggers have combined for 48 home runs and 165 runs batted in, which leads all duos nationally. Tim Willert, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2025 Despite its strong start, this team will only go as far as the star slugger can take it. Peter Chawaga, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for slugger
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Noun
  • It was announced that WWE wrestler Braun Strowman will face heavyweight boxer Tyson Fury and WWE champion Brock Lesnar will take on former UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez at the WWE's Crown Jewel event at Fahd International Stadium in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on October 31.
    Andrew Ravens‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 June 2025
  • The filly earns $1,850 for her victory. 1914 — Harry Vardon wins his sixth and final British Open by shooting a 306, three strokes ahead of J.H. Taylor at Prestwick Club. 1936 — German heavyweight boxer Max Schmeling knocks out previously unbeaten Joe Louis in the 12th round.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2025
Noun
  • Bernthal, with his handsome pugilist’s profile, plays Braxton’s emotions explosively close to the surface.
    Tom Gliatto, People.com, 25 Apr. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Decrepit office buildings and flophouse hotels have been remade into pricey lofts and townhouses, the coolest address being where prizefighters Depp and Heard went at it tooth and nail, an art deco masterpiece called the Eastern Guardian Building, with its eerie clock tower and greenish glow.
    David Weiss, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
  • 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
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
  • The ancient amphitheater here, one of the best preserved in the world, was a venue for gladiator fights during its Roman era.
    Pat Tompkins, AFAR Media, 9 June 2025
  • Spectacles like gladiator fights helped reinforce social roles and norms.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • For example, canines with short legs, such as corgis, or ones with short noses, like pugs, find swimming to be difficult.
    Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 June 2025
  • Have long or thick fur. Are a breed with breathing issues, including bulldogs, pugs, boxers, Boston terriers or Persian cats.
    Angela Rodriguez, Sacbee.com, 30 May 2025

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“Slugger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slugger. Accessed 24 Jun. 2025.

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