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Recent Examples of slugfest
One night after the Red Sox outlasted the Orioles in a 12-10 slugfest, the teams battled through a pitchers’ duel for five innings.
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Jen McCaffrey, The Athletic, 17 Aug. 2024
Anyone tempted to take the over should keep in mind that most of Penn State's biggest games in recent years have been slugfests (21-7 over Illinois earlier this year, 28-13 over Wisconsin last week, not to mention last year's 20-12 loss to the Buckeyes and 24-15 loss to Michigan).
—Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 2 Nov. 2024
Detroit Lions 20, Arizona Cardinals 13: The Lions leaned heavily on their gritty ground game to win a slugfest at State Farm Stadium.
—Jim Reineking, USA TODAY, 23 Sep. 2024
Second, the proposal immediately devolved into a partisan slugfest.
—Nathan E. Sanders, The Atlantic, 24 Sep. 2024
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Jen McCaffrey, The Athletic, 17 Aug. 2024
Anyone tempted to take the over should keep in mind that most of Penn State's biggest games in recent years have been slugfests (21-7 over Illinois earlier this year, 28-13 over Wisconsin last week, not to mention last year's 20-12 loss to the Buckeyes and 24-15 loss to Michigan).
—Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 2 Nov. 2024
Detroit Lions 20, Arizona Cardinals 13: The Lions leaned heavily on their gritty ground game to win a slugfest at State Farm Stadium.
—Jim Reineking, USA TODAY, 23 Sep. 2024
Second, the proposal immediately devolved into a partisan slugfest.
—Nathan E. Sanders, The Atlantic, 24 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for slugfest
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Needless to say, this tension is darkly entertaining, like a fistfight at a funeral.Graham Hillard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 29 Nov. 2024
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The film discusses suicidal ideation and the main character, George Bailey, expresses some violence, including involvement in a fistfight and knocking over furniture.Greta Cross, USA TODAY, 6 Dec. 2024
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From an opening scene on the high seas as a French merchant ship is aflame to a stag hunt on an aristocratic estate to a pistol duel at dawn, the writer-directors capture the scope and grandeur of Dumas’ story.Scott Phillips, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
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In fact, isolating it to just the defensive third, their 69.1 per cent aerial duel and 65.1 per cent ground duel success is the highest by a team in any Premier League season since 2018-19.Liam Tharme, The Athletic, 31 Dec. 2024
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The Rangers came out of the melee with a power play, but that didn’t lead to a goal.Peter Baugh, The Athletic, 18 Dec. 2024
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Campus police had no effective plan to work with external law enforcement and failed to take command on the night of the melee — leading the LAPD and the California Highway Patrol to devise an ad hoc response.Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2024
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Toward the end there’s a punch-up, with several players involved.David Szalay, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2024
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Of the new cast additions, only Ayoade is doing anything funny, but Xeni’s pretentious banter could have used a writerly punch-up from somebody like Richard Ayoade.Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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The hard-throwing lefty dominated across 72 appearances (72.0 innings), notching a 1.75 ERA and 1.13 WHIP with 84 punch-outs.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 30 Nov. 2024
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Asus chose to have a punch-out camera and obscure part of the screen rather than mount it in a larger bezel, which shows how form has come ahead of function.Ewan Spence, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
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This heated confrontation quickly escalated, and soon after, a match between the two was officially announced for January 11, 2025, at an upcoming ROW event.George Monastiriakos, Newsweek, 30 Dec. 2024
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But Washington’s refusal to let Seoul act on its concerns now sets the allies up for an unnecessary confrontation.Robert E. Kelly, Foreign Affairs, 30 Dec. 2024
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There’s this brawl out scene with the henchmen of Ivan’s Russian billionaire parents.Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2024
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The brawl got so intense that police had to step in and pepper spray players to stop the chaos.Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
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Saturday’s donnybrook at the Horseshoe may not have scared up the massive numbers that last year’s Ohio State-Michigan showdown delivered, but Fox’s broadcast of the 120th installment of The Game still ranks as the college football season’s second-biggest TV draw.Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 4 Dec. 2024
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Once, according to a story pitcher George Brunet told Sports Illustrated, a manager’s argument with an umpire turned into an all-out donnybrook involving players and fans and photographers and reporters, too.Rustin Dodd, The Athletic, 26 Aug. 2024
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“Slugfest.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slugfest. Accessed 6 Jan. 2025.
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