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stumblebum

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as in palooka

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Recent Examples of stumblebum The stumblebum energy disarms us, which makes the gruesome cruelty of the kills that much more disturbing. — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2026 As opposed to palookas and has-beens and tin cans and stumblebums, a player who got waived departed with his dignity intact. — Joe Queenan, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2018 Gerald Ford, for all his stumblebum image, was a Yale Law School graduate and veteran of legislative details. — James Fallows, The Atlantic, 20 July 2017 The physicians lining up with Teirstein are not a bunch of stumblebums afraid of a few tests. — Kurt Eichenwald, Newsweek, 10 Mar. 2015

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Sylvester Stallone's underdog tale about a struggling palooka given one shot at the heavyweight championship is a stirring sports movie with a level of charm and sweetness that dissipated in the rounds (and rounds) of sequels that followed.

— Brian Lowry, CNN, 25 July 2019
All this real guts and glory in Philadelphia, yet one of the big tourist attractions is to run up the Art Museum steps the way a palooka named Rocky Balboa did on the silver screen.

— Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 1 Jan. 2018

Definition of palooka

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Many weekend duffers buy their equipment at Dick’s Sporting Goods .

— Tom Rotunno, CNBC, 8 Apr. 2026
Prior to 2023, when the streamer hosted its first live sports event—the Netflix Cup featured F1 drivers and pro duffers squaring off in a nine-hole match—the company brass were adamant about staying out of that lane.

— Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 25 Mar. 2026

Definition of duffer

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The slugger will rejoin New York's active roster without going on a minor league rehab assignment first.

— CBS New York Team, CBS News, 8 Sep. 2026
Bo Bichette has become someone he’s gone to frequently, and with his locker close to Juan Soto’s, the slugger has also become a source of advice.

— Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of slugger

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British boxer Conor Benn will challenge WBC welterweight champion Ryan Garcia Saturday night in Las Vegas, and in his corner for his shot at the title will be Off-White.

— Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 10 Sep. 2026
It is widely known that intravenous drips are used by some boxers as a way of rehydrating effectively, delivering water and/or saline into the body directly.

— Sarah Shephard, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2026

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But Ford had stripped these two unpainted entries down to the chassis, like prizefighters shedding final pounds before weigh-in.

— Eric Moskowitz, The Atlantic, 31 May 2026
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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The 50-year-old Ukrainian pugilist was engaged to Panettiere in 2013 during an on-and-off relationship that lasted nearly a decade.

— Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 18 Aug. 2026
The group reached the office of Ilhan Omar, a Democratic congresswoman from Minneapolis who has a reputation as a political pugilist.

— Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of pugilist

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The movie follows Lucius’ return to Rome as a slave, forced to compete in gladiator fights as his father Maximus (Crowe’s character from the original movie) did before him.

— Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 2 Sep. 2026
Rome — Rome’s ancient Colosseum, where gladiators were once gored by wild animals to the delight of cheering crowds, has never exactly been associated with safety.

— Antonia Mortensen, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of gladiator

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But Hearts of Darkness didn’t have anywhere as many macarons, pugs or frothy silk-satin gowns as Making Marie Antoinette does, so who knows which one future generations will watch more?

— Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 6 Sep. 2026
Struggling to come to terms with the diagnosis, Jenifer now stays mostly indoors, building elaborate Lego artwork and spending time with their rescue pug mixes.

— Christopher Osher, ProPublica, 4 Sep. 2026

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