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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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Paying a slugger like Pete Alonso big money would probably be a safer bet than any pitcher, but none of the premier free agent bats seem like a good fit.Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 21 Dec. 2024
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However, the top priority should be extending their $450 million slugger.Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
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After the Games, boxer and Olympic gold medalist Imane Khelif brought a $4.4 million in echo MIV for her attendance of the Bottega Veneta spring 2025 show in Milan.Lily Templeton, WWD, 16 Dec. 2024
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In November, Jake Paul, the YouTuber and sometime boxer, staged a live boxing match with Mike Tyson, a media spectacle that drew more than a hundred million viewers and tested Netflix’s capacity for live streaming.Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2024
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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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Long assumed to be man-eaters, hammerhead sharks live in Florida, but very rarely bother humans. Sharks to watch out for in Florida (click for more): Bull Shark The prizefighter of the ocean: stout, surly and stubborn.Erik Vance, New York Times, 26 July 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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The Texas Democrat has quickly emerged as among the most prominent of the Democrats’ young and rising stars, carving out a reputation as a fierce partisan pugilist ready to take on conservatives over some of the hottest topics being debated in the Capitol.Mike Lillis, The Hill, 17 Dec. 2024
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Huston’s heart is certainly in the right place and the narrative corner he’s written for Mike to fight his way out of isn’t an untenable one for a pugilist melodrama.Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
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In a league of gladiators, Myers has exhibited as much toughness and reliability as anyone on the roster.Rob Reischel, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
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The former was met with Beth (Kelly Reilly) and Jamie (Wes Bentley) engaged in a fight to the death, blood flying and flesh ripping like gladiators in his prefab kitchen.William Earl, Variety, 16 Dec. 2024
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Vito is also the number one ranked pug in all show systems, and the number two toy dog in all of America.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 29 Nov. 2024
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The pug, named Vito, is the No. 1 pug in all show systems and the No. 2 toy dog in the U.S, according to a release.Rob Wile, NBC News, 28 Nov. 2024
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“Stumblebum.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stumblebum. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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