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As the World Series approaches, fans might take a moment to appreciate an era that has given us baseball players, like the Yankees’ slugger Aaron Judge and the Dodgers’ pitcher-hitter Shohei Ohtani, who will go down in history with Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron, and Mickey Mantle.
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Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
Dodgers slugger Max Muncy was at the plate in the top of the fourth inning with the bases loaded and one out.
—Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 14 Oct. 2025
Among that set’s rookie cards: San Francisco Giants greats Barry Bonds and Will Clark, and Oakland Athletics slugger Mark McGwire.
—Mark Billingsley, Sacbee.com, 13 Oct. 2025
Here’s everything to know about Chantel Collado and her relationship with the MLB slugger.
—Nasha Smith, PEOPLE, 8 Oct. 2025
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Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
Dodgers slugger Max Muncy was at the plate in the top of the fourth inning with the bases loaded and one out.
—Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 14 Oct. 2025
Among that set’s rookie cards: San Francisco Giants greats Barry Bonds and Will Clark, and Oakland Athletics slugger Mark McGwire.
—Mark Billingsley, Sacbee.com, 13 Oct. 2025
Here’s everything to know about Chantel Collado and her relationship with the MLB slugger.
—Nasha Smith, PEOPLE, 8 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for slugger
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Butler’s style resembled that of patient boxer Floyd Mayweather far more than lightning-quick Formula 1 driver Yuki Tsunoda, both of whom were courtside.—
Joseph Dycus,
Mercury News,
23 Oct. 2025
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Kim's dog Rocky When Kim was dating football player Reggie Bush, the two got a boxer dog named Rocky in 2010.—
Sydni Ellis,
PEOPLE,
22 Oct. 2025
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An amateur pugilist who Jean-Luc collaborated with previously, before the guy joined the army and was stationed in Algeria, is recruited to star in it.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
31 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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Daniel Kinahan, a keen amateur boxer, has always been in thrall to prizefighters.—
Ed Caesar,
New Yorker,
20 Oct. 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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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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In this alternate history, set around six months after the events of War of the Damned, Ashur is rewarded by the Republic for helping crush the slave rebellion and given control of the gladiator school previously owned by Batiatus.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
3 Nov. 2025
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Quintessential Kurt Geiger styles including the Islington sneaker and the Octavia gladiator sandal also get the holiday treatment with jeweled embellishments.—
Julia Teti,
Footwear News,
31 Oct. 2025
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Mason, 39, talks with PEOPLE exclusively about all the planning that went into throwing their pug the perfect party.—
Meredith Wilshere,
PEOPLE,
19 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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“Slugger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slugger. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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