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Recent Examples of slugger
Yankees slugger Aaron Judge got only two hits in 18 plate appearances against the pesky Royals.
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Bernie Pleskoff, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
Cleveland closer Emmanuel Clase led the AL with 47 saves while sluggers José Ramírez and Josh Naylor each hit over 30 home runs and 100 RBIs.
—Joe Guillen, Axios, 4 Oct. 2024
The right-handed slugger hit .272 with 67 extra-base hits including 33 home runs, 99 RBIs and a .840 OPS (137 OPS+) in 154 games this year.
—Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
The Angels made the first trade of the offseason Thursday, acquiring slugger Jorge Soler for underachieving starting pitcher Griffin Canning.
—Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2024
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Bernie Pleskoff, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
Cleveland closer Emmanuel Clase led the AL with 47 saves while sluggers José Ramírez and Josh Naylor each hit over 30 home runs and 100 RBIs.
—Joe Guillen, Axios, 4 Oct. 2024
The right-handed slugger hit .272 with 67 extra-base hits including 33 home runs, 99 RBIs and a .840 OPS (137 OPS+) in 154 games this year.
—Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
The Angels made the first trade of the offseason Thursday, acquiring slugger Jorge Soler for underachieving starting pitcher Griffin Canning.
—Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for slugger
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The character started off as a boxer and has become a bum, like Brando’s Terry Malloy.Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 1 Nov. 2024
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In a podcast released Monday with former professional wrestler The Undertaker, Trump also pushed false claims about the controversial Olympic boxing match between Italian boxer Angela Carini and Algerian boxer Imane Khelif.Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 21 Oct. 2024
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Carbajal does some dapper clowning around and Morales-Woolery is a very funny faux pugilist but the comedy never quite catches fire.Karen D'Souza, The Mercury News, 23 Sep. 2024
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Bloom is the center of the drama, his handsome leading man visage transformed by prosthetics that give him a broken nose, cauliflower ears, and a pugilist's demeanor.Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 6 Sep. 2024
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And then New York ended the series an evening later, on a tenth-inning homer by Soto, whose numerous baseball talents include a prizefighter’s swaggering eagerness to shuffle and then pounce.Nicholas Dawidoff, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2024
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Nowhere is that bond stronger than with hip-hop, with prizefighters walking out to the ring with their favorite artists, rap verses referencing greats of the sport, and boxers dropping albums of their own.Justin Koreis, Rolling Stone, 12 Oct. 2024
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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
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Sylvester Stallone's underdog tale about a struggling palooka given one shot at the heavyweight championship is a stirring sports movie with a level of charm and sweetness that dissipated in the rounds (and rounds) of sequels that followed.Brian Lowry, CNN, 25 July 2019
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Like his father, Lucius is enslaved and forced to fight as a gladiator for the entertainment of a wealthy Roman emperor and hordes of bloodthirsty spectators.Anya Jaremko-Greenwold, The Week US, theweek, 8 Nov. 2024
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Many gladiators only lived to their mid-20s, per the source.Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 10 Oct. 2024
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Tom and Cynthia have birds, lizards, cats and dogs — including a pug named Frank who frequently makes appearances on Tom’s Instagram.Emily Blackwood, People.com, 31 Oct. 2024
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The American Veterinary Medical Association notes that short-nosed breeds, such as pugs and bulldogs, are more likely to die on airplanes than dogs with normal-length muzzles, because these breeds are more prone to respiratory problems.Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 24 Oct. 2024
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