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Recent Examples of slugfest
Down two of its top frontcourt players and defenders, Duke endured three straight slugfests to complete its first outright sweep of the ACC’s regular-season and tournament championships since 2006.
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Brendan Marks, The Athletic, 16 Mar. 2025
Each and every encounter between the beefy bros will only up the animosity, leading to multiple actual slugfests.
—Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 24 Feb. 2025
Now Notre Dame's coach is its biggest foe No debate: The 12-team College Football Playoff was a success
Josh Allen, Bills defeat Ravens 27-25 to advance to AFC championship: Highlights
The Lions and Commanders put on a slugfest for the ages.
—Andrew Greif, NBC News, 20 Jan. 2025
The game started as a defensive slugfest, then picked up in the latter stages of the first half.
—Scott Chasen, Kansas City Star, 6 Feb. 2025
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Brendan Marks, The Athletic, 16 Mar. 2025
Each and every encounter between the beefy bros will only up the animosity, leading to multiple actual slugfests.
—Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 24 Feb. 2025
Now Notre Dame's coach is its biggest foe No debate: The 12-team College Football Playoff was a success
Josh Allen, Bills defeat Ravens 27-25 to advance to AFC championship: Highlights
The Lions and Commanders put on a slugfest for the ages.
—Andrew Greif, NBC News, 20 Jan. 2025
The game started as a defensive slugfest, then picked up in the latter stages of the first half.
—Scott Chasen, Kansas City Star, 6 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for slugfest
Noun
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Even the violence has a sense of poetry to it, as with a bloody fistfight that takes place in the water, witnessed by the quivering cab driver on the beach.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
11 Mar. 2025
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Some accounts include fistfights and even a duel challenge.—
Jeremy Duda,
Axios,
12 Mar. 2025
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With a brewing 60 meter sprint race between NFL champion Tyreek Hill and Olympic gold medalist Noah Lyles locked in for sometime later this year, conversations have been running amok as to whether the crossover duel will actually field a competitive race.—
Cory Mull,
Forbes.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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Snell duels with Tarik Skubal, the incumbent AL Triple-Crowner and last year’s unanimous AL Cy Young.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
27 Mar. 2025
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Despite being the core emphasis, melee attacks are somehow more restrictive this time around, as the Doom Slayer is saddled with a gauntlet that does make punches more effective, but has a limited amount of charges.—
Kazuma Hashimoto,
Rolling Stone,
31 Mar. 2025
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Combat is fun enough – melee combat is rough but serviceable, and the gunplay is decent – and the world is filled with things to do, places to go, and people to meet (and ultimately kill).—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
21 Mar. 2025
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The Oscar promo did end up being released, with the main concept intact but minus those punch-ups.—
Dade Hayes,
Deadline,
13 Mar. 2025
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In the hands of the endlessly inventive comedian, the tale of a boy who pulls himself up by his bootstraps and seeks out fame and fortune becomes a madcap delight complete with a zingy script, cartoonish punch-ups, collapsing sets, and a heady dose of magical realism.—
Radhika Seth,
Vogue,
9 Feb. 2025
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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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An eyewitness told police that the confrontation between the two boys began when Metcalf asked Anthony to move out from under the tent that had been set up for members of his high school track team on the field that day.—
Charlotte Phillipp,
People.com,
6 Apr. 2025
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There is a humiliation that is at play with the ankle monitor, and then the confrontation with Chad happening at my workplace is kind of her nightmare.—
Hunter Ingram,
Variety,
4 Apr. 2025
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The brawl kicked off between the teams during a tense second quarter on Sunday, March 30.—
Escher Walcott,
People.com,
31 Mar. 2025
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What To Know The snippet of the brawl seen online does not show how the fight began.—
Ron Estes,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Mar. 2025
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Completing the quartet is Justin Withers’ Demetrius, who unleashes his comic chops during a hilarious donnybrook.—
Rob Hubbard,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
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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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“Slugfest.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slugfest. Accessed 10 Apr. 2025.
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