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Recent Examples of walkover
Noun
Sabalenka advanced to the semis via walkover when former Wimbledon champion Marketa Vondrousova withdrew with an injury. Adam Zagoria, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025 The tournament announced Wednesday that Draper dropped out of the tournament with an injury and Zizou Bergs will be advancing to the third round by walkover. Ben Church, CNN Money, 27 Aug. 2025 His second-round opponent, Zizou Bergs of Belgium, advances to the third round via walkover. Charlie Eccleshare, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2025 While every Florida fan remembers the trauma of losing to then-FCS Georgia Southern in 2013, this should be a walkover. Noah White, Miami Herald, 19 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for walkover
Recent Examples of Synonyms for walkover
Noun
  • Earthquakes' sudden, rapid shaking can cause fires, tsunamis, landslides or avalanches.
    CA Earthquake Bot, Sacbee.com, 15 Feb. 2026
  • Democrats, who swept to a landslide victory in off-year elections in Virginia, passed the aggressive new map last week.
    Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 13 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Behind 42 points, 13 assists and eight rebounds from Cade Cunningham, Detroit took down New York 126-111 to complete the regular-season sweep.
    James L. Edwards III, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Cadaver searches of the area using K-9 teams and aerial drone sweeps were conducted, and water rescue teams used 2D and 3D sonar technology in their efforts to locate him, police said.
    Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 19 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • The results were solid, with three exciting mini-games in the round-robin tournament all going down to the buzzer before the blowout finale.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Leonard led the Clippers (25-28) with 24 points after scoring 41 in a blowout win in December in the last meeting between the teams.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Purists should go into it expecting not a faithful adaptation, but a romp best enjoyed as romantasy fanfic.
    Natasha O'Neill, Vanity Fair, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Now McGee, too, is back with a crime drama—one bound to earn comparisons to Sharon Horgan’s post-Catastrophe murder romp, Bad Sisters.
    Judy Berman, Time, 13 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • As Hill and Hirsch traded correct responses and kept chasing one another’s scores, Betts found her prospects of victory rapidly dimming.
    Claire McNear, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Since a state championship victory in 1975, Carroll has made the regional semifinals 10 times, and had a streak of four consecutive appearances from 2021 to 2024.
    Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • The two families at the center of the story are warring for conquest of a volcanic holy mountain; their various alliances over the course of the film are not attempts at class preservation but rather ritualistic power plays.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Antarctica remains his final continental conquest—the penguins have been warned.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • This wasn’t a cushioned walkaway win against an overmatched opponent.
    Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The big number: $2.25 million That’s roughly the walkaway money going to J.J. Spaun for winning the U.S. Open.
    Alex Sherman, CNBC, 19 June 2025

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“Walkover.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/walkover. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.

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