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Recent Examples of slugfest
Featuring the top two stingiest scoring defenses in the NFL, Sunday’s game (10 a.m. PDT, Ch. 2) is likely to be a slugfest.
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Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2024
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Comment: Mustangs have won a shootout (48-38 vs. Erie) and defensive slugfest (10-9 at Grandview).
—Matt Schubert, The Denver Post, 9 Sep. 2024
Listen to this article The prize awaiting the victor of the Knicks and Pacers’ second-round slugfest is a meeting in the Eastern Conference Finals with basketball’s biggest juggernaut.
—Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 16 May 2024
If implemented correctly, this movement system will provide multiple paths to victory without determining every fight in a slugfest.
—Brian Mazique, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
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Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2024
Ralston Valley 2-0 6 W (10-9 at No. 9 Grandview)
Comment: Mustangs have won a shootout (48-38 vs. Erie) and defensive slugfest (10-9 at Grandview).
—Matt Schubert, The Denver Post, 9 Sep. 2024
Listen to this article The prize awaiting the victor of the Knicks and Pacers’ second-round slugfest is a meeting in the Eastern Conference Finals with basketball’s biggest juggernaut.
—Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 16 May 2024
If implemented correctly, this movement system will provide multiple paths to victory without determining every fight in a slugfest.
—Brian Mazique, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for slugfest
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The pugnacious owner even claimed to have gotten into a fistfight with Dodgers fans in an elevator in the Hyatt Wilshire Hotel in 1981 after the Dodgers won three straight in L.A. to take the lead in the World Series 3-2.Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2024
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Dodger Stadium and its grounds also have a long history of physical altercations, including fistfights between drunken fans, fan-on-fan attacks that left people with severe injuries, and beatings by security personnel.Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2024
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The Cowboys’ biggest deliveries were notched during their Week 3 duel with Baltimore, which averaged 27.29 million viewers on Fox, trailing only the previous week’s Bengals-Chiefs broadcast on CBS (27.87 million) for bragging rights as the season’s top linear-TV draw.Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 5 Nov. 2024
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The Dodgers won the first two in L.A., Game 2 featuring the duel between rookie Bob Welch and Reggie Jackson.Jim Alexander, Orange County Register, 27 Oct. 2024
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Other inmates also beat a prisoner who did not participate in the melee, according to the report.Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2024
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For all the bad that happened in that melee, the silver lining at times are the allegiances showing their true colors; relationships showing their true colors.Demetrius Patterson, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Nov. 2024
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Airline crew could not run the risk of a full-scale punch-up at 30,000ft.Nina Turner, Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2024
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Writers didn’t want to do punch-ups on potentially crummy AI scripts or have their words (or ideas) cannibalized by large language models that didn’t pay them a dime.Marah Eakin, WIRED, 17 Oct. 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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In his first start in the big leagues, Festa struggled to turn his excellent stuff into strikeouts, giving up five runs with two punch-outs in five innings against the Arizona Diamondbacks.Eno Sarris, The Athletic, 23 Aug. 2024
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But after Israel responded in a relatively muted way, both countries moved on from the confrontation.Carrie A. Lee, Foreign Affairs, 19 Nov. 2024
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Police have not said what the confrontation was about, but according to the documents, Hue allegedly pulled a pistol from his waistband, pointed it at the students and told them to run.Harry Harris, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
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Another video verified by NBC News showed a brawl break out outside Amsterdam Central Station after the game, in what the photographer described as an attack by Israeli fans on local residents.Freddie Clayton, NBC News, 12 Nov. 2024
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Kevin Owens was supposed to face Randy Orton at WWE Crown Jewel, but the match never took place after the friends-turned-rivals got into a wild brawl before the bell rang.Blake Oestriecher, Forbes, 2 Nov. 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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But money has settled previous donnybrooks over new technologies.Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2024
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“Slugfest.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slugfest. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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