Thesaurus results for TROUNCED

trounced

verb

past tense of trounce

as in bombed

to defeat by a large margin our candidate trounced her opponent in the election, winning with 76% of the vote

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Recent Examples of trounced Tyrell Henry caught 14 passes to set a Wisconsin single-game record and Colton Joseph threw for 362 yards and accounted for four touchdowns as the Badgers trounced Eastern Michigan 54-10 on Saturday. — ABC News, 19 Sep. 2026 Shares of the drone manufacturer jumped 10% after first-quarter results trounced estimates. — Michelle Fox,darla Mercado, Cfp®, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2026 But the Bears were absolutely trounced by a UCLA team that could run at will. — The Athletic College Football Staff, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026 In 2019, the coach Brian Flores era began with a resounding thud as the Dolphins were trounced, 59-10, by Baltimore. — Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 7 Sep. 2026 The margin between the candidates was highest in Belmont, which Brownsberger won handily, and Boston, where Lander trounced the Senate leader. — Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 7 Sep. 2026 Trump trounced Democrat Kamala Harris by 11 points in Miami-Dade in November 2024 to win Florida for the third presidential election in a row. — Joshua Ceballos, Miami Herald, 22 Aug. 2026 Walton Johnson trounced former Orange County Property Appraiser Rick Singh with about 53% of the vote, according to unofficial results. — Cristóbal Reyes, The Orlando Sentinel, 19 Aug. 2026 The situation remains unresolved, and Reddit’s shares fell more than 20 percent after the earnings report, even though the company’s quarter trounced investors’ expectations on most of the basic financials. — Samuel Axon, ArsTechnica, 1 Aug. 2026

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That changed a bit earlier this month when the Houthis bombed the Saudi East-West pipeline, temporarily shutting down roughly 7 million barrels of oil flowing to the Red Sea – more than half of which had been diverted from the Strait of Hormuz.

— David Goldman, CNN Money, 29 Sep. 2026
Palminteri argued that early career struggles do not define a player's potential, pointing to guys like Sam Darnold and Baker Mayfield who got drafted, bombed, busted, and then roared back.

— Alejandro Avila OutKick, FOXNews.com, 29 Sep. 2026

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After learning that Manchester whipped Maggie with a cat-o’-nine-tails, Lizzie agrees to help the Borden family’s maid kill her.

— Samantha Stutsman, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2026
That sort of whipped, inswinging ball from Slater that caused so much havoc is hugely familiar to avid Premier League watchers.

— Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026

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Smith is said to have thrashed and thrashed in the death chamber.

— Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2026
The flooding on the canyon floor started Saturday afternoon after waves of rainfall thrashed Bright Angel Canyon and Phantom Ranch – the only lodging under the rim of the Grand Canyon.

— Maria Aguilar Prieto, CNN Money, 30 Aug. 2026

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Then Beamer and his boys went on the road and got clobbered by Alabama to the tune of a 49-18 beatdown.

— Austin Perry OutKick, FOXNews.com, 29 Sep. 2026
The 27-year-old clobbered his 40th homer of the season in the first inning and performed an encore with his 41st in the fourth.

— James O'Connell, New York Daily News, 24 Sep. 2026

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That spending is routed carefully, and Gopalkrishnan said the bank is model-agnostic.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2026
In production architecture, verification and validation loops have to be placed around every point where AI works, and any field that shows a confidence score below a set threshold has to be routed automatically to human review.

— Pranit Banthia, Forbes.com, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of routed

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Instead, Hilton debated like someone already preparing to launch a podcast or beg for his old Fox News job back after he gets walloped.

— Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
Just weeks after getting walloped by Hurricane Marie, residents on the peninsula in Long Beach are getting ready to do it all over again with Hurricane Polo.

— Alys Martinez, CBS News, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of walloped

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Cleveland used its rushing attack to upset Crenshaw on the road.

— Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2026
In April, Peruvians, upset by the sharpest monthly inflation spike in the country in more than 30 years, showed how economic anxiety can upend politics and open the door to populists.

— DAN RESTREPO, Foreign Affairs, 30 Sep. 2026

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