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Recent Examples of slugger
Gilbert was the new hope, the key part of the return for Verlander from the Houston Astros, along with slugger Ryan Clifford, and Luisangel Acuña, who came from the Scherzer trade.
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Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 11 Mar. 2025
To manager Aaron Boone, Cortes had a better chance to execute the high, inside fastballs that could tie those sluggers up.
—Tyler Kepner, The Athletic, 25 Feb. 2025
During his time in New York, the slugger received two rounds of PRP injections to address the tennis elbow injuries.
—Fiifi Frimpong, New York Daily News, 8 Mar. 2025
In his final print interview before his death in 2020, the former White Sox slugger lauded fans for treating him with so much respect.
—Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 6 Mar. 2025
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Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 11 Mar. 2025
To manager Aaron Boone, Cortes had a better chance to execute the high, inside fastballs that could tie those sluggers up.
—Tyler Kepner, The Athletic, 25 Feb. 2025
During his time in New York, the slugger received two rounds of PRP injections to address the tennis elbow injuries.
—Fiifi Frimpong, New York Daily News, 8 Mar. 2025
In his final print interview before his death in 2020, the former White Sox slugger lauded fans for treating him with so much respect.
—Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 6 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for slugger
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Police are investigating after the body of a boxer, who went missing on March 3, was found in a river less than 12 hours later.—
Gabrielle Rockson,
People.com,
14 Mar. 2025
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Bernthal, with his boxer’s profile and his live-wire emotions, is delightfully juvenile as Braxton, and the brashness of his performance balances out certain bigger choices Affleck makes, with mixed results.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
9 Mar. 2025
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The true-life sports biopic unleashes Leo as Alice, the loud, over-the-top matriarch of a large Boston family and manager mom to Micky Ward, a championship boxing contender trained by his drug-addict pugilist half-brother Dicky.—
Brian Truitt,
USA TODAY,
25 Feb. 2025
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An odd corps of swampy Washington DC pugilists are ready to engage, likely supplemented by political pressure from shipbuilding companies.—
Craig Hooper,
Forbes,
10 Jan. 2025
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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
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Buffalo this year was the prizefighter dropping his gloves, sticking out his chin and daring any of three opponents to land a haymaker.—
Tim Graham,
The Athletic,
7 Jan. 2025
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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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My motivation was to achieve with the team, to make the fans happy and above all to experience this feeling of entering the pitch as a gladiator who returns victorious.—
Charlotte Harpur,
The Athletic,
18 Feb. 2025
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What is the name of the amphitheater in ancient Rome where gladiators fought?—
Alex Vance,
Parents,
14 Jan. 2025
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Only after the pug has had her food. Car: Have never owned one.—
airmail.news,
airmail.news,
8 Mar. 2025
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The seven rescued pug puppies are now available for adoption at the Helen Woodward Animal Center on a first-come-first-served basis.—
Nicholas Rice,
People.com,
22 Feb. 2025
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“Slugger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slugger. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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