as in to overcome
to defeat by a large margin
our candidate trounced her opponent in the election, winning with 76% of the vote
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Recent Examples of trounce
Argyle trounced Fort Worth Chisholm Trail 8-0. Lauren Ellis punched in a loose ball in front of the net in the 2nd minute to give the Owls a 1-0 lead and that held up for the entire first half.
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Darren Lauber, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Mar. 2025
Major Intermediate Buy Signal Still Intact The AAII Bull-Bear Spread residing at minus 40.1 continues to reflect a percentage of pessimists trouncing the optimists by a factor of 3, with recent readings some of the most Bearish in history, given that Main Street is usually Bullish.
—John Buckingham, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
Shares of the health-care middleman have trounced the S & P 500 over the past five years.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 14 Mar. 2025
Others trounced their competition, such as Santiago’s, which has restaurants across the Front Range, took 72% of the popular vote against D’Corazon.
—Miguel Otárola, The Denver Post, 12 Mar. 2025
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Darren Lauber, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Mar. 2025
Major Intermediate Buy Signal Still Intact The AAII Bull-Bear Spread residing at minus 40.1 continues to reflect a percentage of pessimists trouncing the optimists by a factor of 3, with recent readings some of the most Bearish in history, given that Main Street is usually Bullish.
—John Buckingham, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
Shares of the health-care middleman have trounced the S & P 500 over the past five years.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 14 Mar. 2025
Others trounced their competition, such as Santiago’s, which has restaurants across the Front Range, took 72% of the popular vote against D’Corazon.
—Miguel Otárola, The Denver Post, 12 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for trounce
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Republicans will need Democratic support to overcome a 60-vote threshold to be able to pass the bill in the Senate.—
John Parkinson,
ABC News,
10 Apr. 2025
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After Republicans in the House and Senate had forged ahead on their own budget blueprints earlier this year, the Senate on Saturday adopted the compromise resolution, giving the House just days to overcome opposition and get it over the finish line before the recess.—
Caitlin Yilek,
CBS News,
9 Apr. 2025
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Most of those minerals are currently buried beneath thick sheets of previously impenetrable ice.—
Mack DeGeurin,
Popular Science,
10 Apr. 2025
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Blowing up command bunkers and burying the officers in the rubble can offset the Russians’ manpower advantage—by depriving that manpower of leadership.—
David Axe,
Forbes.com,
9 Apr. 2025
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Her defense has raised the possibility that someone else beat him to death and left him in the cold.—
Michael Ruiz,
FOXNews.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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Her decision to turn down the Apple beat at the Journal in 2007, the year the iPhone was released, in order to pursue an M.F.A. in fiction propels an exploration of how much human creativity depends on the ideas and labor of others.—
Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
10 Apr. 2025
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The Late Devonian extinction, nearly four hundred million years ago, annihilated the jawless fish.—
D. T. Max,
New Yorker,
7 Apr. 2025
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Just like a bank, however, the universe demands this energy to be paid back, which virtual particles do by annihilating each other.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
27 Mar. 2025
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Vonn took the super-combined and downhill titles the previous two days. 2014 — The Clippers rout the rival Lakers 142-94.—
Houston Mitchell,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Mar. 2025
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But the Eagles put on a show to rout the defending champs 40-22.—
Paulina Dedaj,
Fox News,
11 Feb. 2025
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Take it from us and whip out this gem for special occasions versus everyday wear, as Gucci recommends shielding it from direct light, heat, and rain.—
Stacia Datskovska,
Footwear News,
10 Apr. 2025
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In the early hours of April 21, 1775, gale-force winds whipped across the town square, driving the shivering sentries from their posts to the shelter of their beds.—
Andrew Lawler,
Smithsonian Magazine,
2 Apr. 2025
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Trump's global trade war has already clobbered the stock market, raised the odds of a U.S. recession and started to push up inflation for American households with the prospect of much steeper price increases ahead.—
Nicole Fallert,
USA Today,
31 Mar. 2025
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The Terps earned the No. 2 seed in the conference tournament and clobbered No. 7 seed Illinois, 88-65, in Friday’s quarterfinal before suffering an 81-80 loss to No. 3 seed Michigan in Saturday’s semifinal.—
Edward Lee,
Baltimore Sun,
16 Mar. 2025
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Several viral videos have captured audiences of the blockbuster video game adaptation going wild, throwing food and drink, and trashing auditoriums.—
Pamela McClintock,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Apr. 2025
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Because nobody buys a mechanical watch and throws it away six months later.—
Thomas Waller,
Footwear News,
9 Apr. 2025
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