slugger

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Recent Examples of slugger Finally, two offensive sluggers could also be on the trade negotiations table given their production so far this season. Kaitlyn Pohly, Miami Herald, 16 July 2025 With the Mets trying to protect a one-run lead in the bottom of the seventh, rookie slugger Jac Caglionone launched a cutter from right-hander Chris Devenski into the left-center gap. Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 12 July 2025 But perhaps most concerning was a setback for a key outfield slugger. Peter Chawaga, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 July 2025 Mets slugger Pete Alonso will not participate in the Home Run Derby. Chris Branch, New York Times, 7 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for slugger
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Noun
  • One of the youngest boxers to ever make their professional debut was Wilfred Benítez, who did so at the age of 15 in 1958.
    Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 26 July 2025
  • Screenshots from a July 15 Instagram video of a female boxer helping her doggy sibling escape from the kennel to go back to breeding.
    Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 July 2025
Noun
  • Even Kamala Harris, maybe especially Harris, fits that insider image, and certainly Gavin Newsom, despite zigzagging from centrist to pugilist, can’t forward his presidential ambitions as anything but old-guard.
    Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2025
  • Bernthal, with his handsome pugilist’s profile, plays Braxton’s emotions explosively close to the surface.
    Tom Gliatto, People.com, 25 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Decrepit office buildings and flophouse hotels have been remade into pricey lofts and townhouses, the coolest address being where prizefighters Depp and Heard went at it tooth and nail, an art deco masterpiece called the Eastern Guardian Building, with its eerie clock tower and greenish glow.
    David Weiss, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
  • In the next scene, the boy is no longer dressed like a prizefighter, but in street clothes with a teddy bear sticking out of his backpack, embracing his parents.
    Cara Lynn Shultz, People.com, 7 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Don’t be a palooka, start Nacua.
    Bill Reinhard, New York Daily News, 12 Dec. 2024
  • 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
Noun
  • The package, with a photograph of a masked gladiator on the wrapping, was found after 8 p.m. near mile marker 79.5 in Upper Matecumbe Key, according to the sheriff’s office.
    David Goodhue July 3, Miami Herald, 3 July 2025
  • The Colosseum dates back to 72 A.D. and was the largest amphitheater in the Roman Empire, a place where thousands gathered to watch gladiators fight.
    Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2025
Noun
  • Short-nosed breeds, like pugs and shih tzus, don't tolerate the heat and humidity because the shape of their faces don't allow for efficient panting to cool themselves, per PetMD.
    Chad Murphy, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
  • Examples of this include Labrador retrievers, Shetland sheepdogs, pugs and basset hounds.
    Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 July 2025

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“Slugger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slugger. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.

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