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The Dodgers right-hander gave up three walks and two hits, including a grand slam to Guardians slugger Kyle Manzardo, before he was lifted after 23 pitches.
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Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2026
The slugger is continuing his regular maintenance in order to play through elbow inflammation — or tennis elbow — in both arms.
—Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 1 Mar. 2026
Rafael Devers, Willy Adames, Bryce Eldridge, and the rest of San Francisco's major league sluggers aren't present.
—Matt Lively, CBS News, 24 Feb. 2026
Those moments have a way of revealing players, and Brunson has won over fans by routinely rising to them—a quality that gives him an edge in the local hierarchy over Aaron Judge, the Herculean Yankees slugger with an unfortunate habit of saving his worst performances for October.
—Tom Kludt, Vanity Fair, 17 Feb. 2026
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Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2026
The slugger is continuing his regular maintenance in order to play through elbow inflammation — or tennis elbow — in both arms.
—Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 1 Mar. 2026
Rafael Devers, Willy Adames, Bryce Eldridge, and the rest of San Francisco's major league sluggers aren't present.
—Matt Lively, CBS News, 24 Feb. 2026
Those moments have a way of revealing players, and Brunson has won over fans by routinely rising to them—a quality that gives him an edge in the local hierarchy over Aaron Judge, the Herculean Yankees slugger with an unfortunate habit of saving his worst performances for October.
—Tom Kludt, Vanity Fair, 17 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for slugger
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In the film, when mobster Marsellus Wallace sees Bruce Willis’ boxer character Butch crossing the street — after Butch defied Wallace’s orders to throw a match — Wallace chases Butch into a pawnshop.—
Kory Grow,
Rolling Stone,
6 Mar. 2026
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Morgan Freeman, 'Million Dollar Baby' (2005) The best picture-winning boxing drama paired up-and-coming boxer Maggie (Hilary Swank) with grumpy reluctant coach Frankie (Clint Eastwood).—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
4 Mar. 2026
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The Boricua pugilist rode a prolonged winning streak heading into his match with Mexican fighter Salvador Sánchez in August 1981.—
Carlos De Loera,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Feb. 2026
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Before his coaching career, Berube was a bona fide pugilist and still ranks seventh all-time in NHL penalty minutes.—
Joshua Kloke,
New York Times,
23 Jan. 2026
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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
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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
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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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Researchers using advanced imaging technology have deciphered 79 previously invisible inscriptions — including love notes, drawings of gladiators, and everyday messages — on a wall in the ancient city of Pompeii, offering a rare window into the lives of ordinary people nearly 2,000 years ago.—
Ryan Brennan,
Charlotte Observer,
9 Mar. 2026
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But despite all the HR-speak about inclusion and ethics, the competitive atmosphere remained as brutal as a gladiator pit.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
2 Mar. 2026
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This frenzy unfolded into a succession of rings, like craps tables at a casino, in which breed competitions were taking place simultaneously—churning packs of basenjis, salukis, Xoloitzcuintlis, whippets, shih tzus, rat terriers, malamutes, and pugs.—
Andrew Norman Wilson,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Feb. 2026
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Another French influencer—27-year-old blogger Aniss Zitouni, who goes by the account name Aqababe—was one of the first to allege that Schreiner had organized the pug’s disappearance himself.—
Kenneal Patterson,
Vanity Fair,
19 Feb. 2026
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“Slugger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slugger. Accessed 11 Mar. 2026.
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