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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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Paris is the coy Daris (Arya Grace Gaston), and the doomed hero Achilles has become the grim-faced Trojan running back Keeley (Erin Treadway, in boxer braids and golden work boots), who refuses to take the field after Johnny utters a fatal insult.—
Helen Shaw,
New Yorker,
28 Mar. 2025
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The boxer looked thrilled to walk the carpet with his future wife, giving Leerdam affectionate kisses and showing some PDA on the carpet.—
Natasha Dye,
People.com,
27 Mar. 2025
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He was swept up in the swirl of decade-defining events surrounding Muhammad Ali as well as Joe Frazier and other high-wattage pugilists of the 1970s.—
Cynthia Littleton,
Variety,
22 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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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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While quiet luxury is still holding its ground, with comfort sandals taking on an achingly chic pragmatism, other trends are swinging in the opposite direction — from nostalgic gladiators and clogs to snake prints slithering in as the new neutral.—
Laura Lajiness Kaupke,
refinery29.com,
21 Mar. 2025
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Bond shows how professional and trade associations empowered bakers, gladiators, charioteers, and the like to wield their leverage—for example, by withholding their labor—in pursuit of improved conditions.—
The New Yorker,
The New Yorker,
17 Mar. 2025
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Heather Frost shared footage of her pug Gus's reaction to meeting her son in a video posted to her TikTok account heather.frosty.—
Ron Estes,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Mar. 2025
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Crappy Christmas lights blinked overhead, and a tiny pug wheezed on a rug by the register.—
Bryan Washington,
The New Yorker,
23 Mar. 2025
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“Slugger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slugger. Accessed 4 Apr. 2025.
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