uppercuts

plural of uppercut

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for uppercuts
Noun
  • That doesn’t mean Cleveland will place the basketball in Hunter’s hands and tell him to go.
    Fred Katz, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Separate the plant by gently pulling the roots apart with your hands, cutting them apart with a clean sharp knife, or placing two garden forks back to back in the clump’s center to pull it apart.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 15 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Breaking Artists For The Long Term Few issues galvanize executives today as much as preserving artists’ and songwriters’ rights in the digital era and the challenge of breaking new music and acts in the midst of a flurry of releases.
    Leila Cobo, Billboard, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, the activist who championed transgender rights and protested in the historic Stonewall rebellion that galvanized the LGBTQ+ civil rights movement, has died.
    Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Dividend cuts ‘would send shivers through Wall Street’ Clark Williams-Derry, energy finance analyst at the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA), a non-profit organization, said trimming the share buybacks is likely Big Oil’s easiest option.
    Sam Meredith, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Grab this sweatsuit and kiss mid-flight shivers goodbye.
    Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 7 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Lego Batman can effortlessly glide from foe to foe, linking punches and kicks from one bad guy to the next.
    Jordan Moreau, Variety, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The humanoid also nails a couple of spins and launches a few punches.
    Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • This is the sort of game that will require CSU’s offense to trade haymakers.
    Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 19 Sep. 2025
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“Uppercuts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uppercuts. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.

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