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Recent Examples of slugger
Not everything involving the kind-hearted slugger worked.
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Brent Lang, Variety, 16 Apr. 2026
Moncada also made a diving stop of an Aaron Judge grounder in the first inning, popping up and throwing out the Yankees slugger.
—Jeff Fletcher, Oc Register, 15 Apr. 2026
New York slugger Giancarlo Stanton, who leads active players with 454, missed by about a foot with a double off the center-field wall in the fifth.
—CBS News, 13 Apr. 2026
Could that be the cause of the Orioles slugger's slump?
—Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 13 Apr. 2026
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Brent Lang, Variety, 16 Apr. 2026
Moncada also made a diving stop of an Aaron Judge grounder in the first inning, popping up and throwing out the Yankees slugger.
—Jeff Fletcher, Oc Register, 15 Apr. 2026
New York slugger Giancarlo Stanton, who leads active players with 454, missed by about a foot with a double off the center-field wall in the fifth.
—CBS News, 13 Apr. 2026
Could that be the cause of the Orioles slugger's slump?
—Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 13 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for slugger
Noun
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Fuqua had been pleased to discover, during the research for his film, that Mandela was an amateur boxer.—
Kelefa Sanneh,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
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The card will also feature several other San Diego-area boxers, including super lightweights Daniel Morales (8-0, 5 KOs) and Angel Juan Estrada (12-1-1, 9 KOs).—
Ivan Carter,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Apr. 2026
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The true-life sports biopic unleashes Leo as Alice, the loud, over-the-top matriarch of a large Boston family and manager mom to Micky Ward, a championship boxing contender trained by his drug-addict pugilist half-brother Dicky.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
7 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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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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Female gladiators were so rare there was no name for them in Latin or Greek.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Apr. 2026
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Its most famous use was for gladiator games, in which enslaved people or prisoners of war fought each other or wild animals to the death.—
Anne Doran,
ARTnews.com,
10 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Veronica, a pug with a spiky pink collar, trudged alongside her sister Betty, a thirteen-year-old hound, in Princeton one recent wet morning.—
Gabriel Debenedetti,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
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The pug made the perfect accessory.—
Alex Apatoff,
PEOPLE,
11 Apr. 2026
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“Slugger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slugger. Accessed 21 Apr. 2026.
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