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Recent Examples of stumblebum
As opposed to palookas and has-beens and tin cans and stumblebums, a player who got waived departed with his dignity intact.
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Joe Queenan, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2018
The physicians lining up with Teirstein are not a bunch of stumblebums afraid of a few tests.
—Kurt Eichenwald, Newsweek, 10 Mar. 2015
From the mid-1960s through the early ’70s, my prime rooting years, the Yankees were a team of stumblebums not even redeemed by charm.
—James Traub, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2017
Gerald Ford, for all his stumblebum image, was a Yale Law School graduate and veteran of legislative details.
—James Fallows, The Atlantic, 20 July 2017
Joe Queenan, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2018
The physicians lining up with Teirstein are not a bunch of stumblebums afraid of a few tests.
—Kurt Eichenwald, Newsweek, 10 Mar. 2015
From the mid-1960s through the early ’70s, my prime rooting years, the Yankees were a team of stumblebums not even redeemed by charm.
—James Traub, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2017
Gerald Ford, for all his stumblebum image, was a Yale Law School graduate and veteran of legislative details.
—James Fallows, The Atlantic, 20 July 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stumblebum
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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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The intrigue over where New York Mets free agent slugger Pete Alonso will sign for 2025 appears to have calmed down at least since last Thursday.—
Justin Gest,
Newsweek,
21 Jan. 2025
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The Toronto Blue Jays, the perennial bridesmaids of this winter’s free agent sweepstakes, finally got their man Monday, reeling in switch-hitting slugger Anthony Santander.—
Dan Schlossberg,
Forbes,
20 Jan. 2025
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Chavarria is known to street cast his shows, working with casting director Brent Chua to fill his runways with everyone from delivery drivers and boxers to famous models and rappers.—
José Criales-Unzueta,
Vogue,
25 Jan. 2025
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The Associated Press, The Nation and The Bangkok Post reported Thursday that former Thai boxer Somluck Kamsing was sentenced to three years, one month and 10 days in jail.—
Sean Neumann,
People.com,
24 Jan. 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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The choice, as Huston pointed out, brought a sense of timelessness to the story of Mikey (Michael Pitt), a prizefighter freshly out of prison who spends the day before his last fight reconnecting with his past in 1989 New York City.—
Mark Peikert,
IndieWire,
7 Dec. 2024
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Plenty a duffer who opposed the invasion of Iraq and the privatization of Social Security has gone on to invoke the line in admiring jest.—
Ben McGrath,
The New Yorker,
29 July 2024
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Many duffers would pick two-time major PGA Tour champion John Daly, whose on-and-off course feats have become legend.—
Richard Johnson,
New York Daily News,
14 July 2024
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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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The 36-year-old Irish martial arts fighter announced his intentions to take on the 29-year-old pugilist Tuesday.—
Brian Niemietz,
New York Daily News,
17 Dec. 2024
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Genetic Analysis of Viking Settlers Challenges Historical Saga Migration Back to Scandinavia The researchers uncovered one person — possibly a Roman soldier or slave gladiator — living in Britain around 100 A.D. to 300 A.D. who had 25 percent Scandinavian ancestry.—
Jack Knudson,
Discover Magazine,
1 Jan. 2025
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There were gladiator movies before Spartacus, and there have been many since, but Stanley Kubrick’s epic is undoubtedly the archetypal gladiator movie.—
James Grebey,
Vulture,
22 Nov. 2024
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The couple left their home last evening with their two pugs after smoke engulfed their neighborhood near Eaten County, Bobbie Oliver said, where winds reached 70 mph.—
Raquel Coronell Uribe,
NBC News,
8 Jan. 2025
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Vito, a 2-and-a-half-year-old pug from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, took home the coveted title of Best in Show, beating out about 2,000 dogs representing 205 breeds and varieties, according to the Kennel Club of Philadelphia who hosted the event.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
29 Nov. 2024
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“Stumblebum.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stumblebum. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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