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our candidate trounced her opponent in the election, winning with 76% of the vote
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Lightfoot trounced him in the city’s majority-Black wards, while Wilson mostly finished second in those areas.
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Regina Garcia Cano, Chicago Tribune, 18 Mar. 2025
As Shakespeare keenly understood, when the individual is allowed to trounce the collective, the result isn’t freedom but barbarism.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2025
Cloudflare went public over five years ago, and the stock price has increased over 6x, trouncing the market (the S & P 500 has roughly doubled over this period).
—Stockstory Team, CNBC, 4 Feb. 2025
The decisive loss to a foreign computer program, which had similarly trounced a South Korean player, was a sort of Sputnik moment for China.
—David Pierson, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2025
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Regina Garcia Cano, Chicago Tribune, 18 Mar. 2025
As Shakespeare keenly understood, when the individual is allowed to trounce the collective, the result isn’t freedom but barbarism.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2025
Cloudflare went public over five years ago, and the stock price has increased over 6x, trouncing the market (the S & P 500 has roughly doubled over this period).
—Stockstory Team, CNBC, 4 Feb. 2025
The decisive loss to a foreign computer program, which had similarly trounced a South Korean player, was a sort of Sputnik moment for China.
—David Pierson, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2025
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“Trounce.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trounce. Accessed 22 Mar. 2025.
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trounce
verb
trounced; trouncing
: to thrash or punish severely
especially
: to defeat thoroughly
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