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Recent Examples of slugger
The Royals slugger turned around a 95-mph fastball from Orioles starter Kyle Bradish in the second inning.
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Kansas City Star, 21 Apr. 2026
Garret Anderson, the often misunderstood and always lethal Angels slugger who starred in the 2002 World Series, has died of a heart attack.
—Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2026
Not everything involving the kind-hearted slugger worked.
—Brent Lang, Variety, 16 Apr. 2026
Moncada also made a diving stop of an Aaron Judge grounder in the first inning, popping up and throwing out the Yankees slugger.
—Jeff Fletcher, Oc Register, 15 Apr. 2026
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Kansas City Star, 21 Apr. 2026
Garret Anderson, the often misunderstood and always lethal Angels slugger who starred in the 2002 World Series, has died of a heart attack.
—Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2026
Not everything involving the kind-hearted slugger worked.
—Brent Lang, Variety, 16 Apr. 2026
Moncada also made a diving stop of an Aaron Judge grounder in the first inning, popping up and throwing out the Yankees slugger.
—Jeff Fletcher, Oc Register, 15 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for slugger
Noun
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Every day, visitors from around the world make their way to the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art — not necessarily for the galleries inside, but for a statue of a fictional boxer from South Philadelphia.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
25 Apr. 2026
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That's right, rapper 50 Cent (né Curtis Jackson) is set to appear in Street Fighter as the boxer Balrog.—
Emily Blackwood,
PEOPLE,
25 Apr. 2026
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To his credit, the bloodied Yankees fan fought back much better than most pugilists who give up the high ground.—
Joe Kinsey OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
28 Apr. 2026
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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,
7 Mar. 2026
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The explosive jazz‑rock pianist – known for redefining piano performance with the physicality of a prizefighter and the swagger of a rock guitarist – is set to turn the DIA’s auditorium into something closer to a sonic combustion chamber.—
Duante Beddingfield,
Freep.com,
24 Feb. 2026
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Mustafa Fteja, 54, pleaded guilty in Brooklyn Federal Court Thursday to obstructing justice, admitting to playing a key role in the bribery plot, which threw Gogic’s trial into disarray and landed the prizefighter’s lawyer in the crosshairs of a federal investigation.—
John Annese,
New York Daily News,
19 Feb. 2026
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Don’t be a palooka, start Nacua.—
Bill Reinhard,
New York Daily News,
12 Dec. 2024
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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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The former sent out an oversized black and white polka dot skirt—a wink to the retro print—styled with a textured top and gladiator sandals, while Dries Van Noten’s red and white abstract set evoked Mediterranean nonchalance.—
Minty Mellon,
Vogue,
21 Apr. 2026
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Female gladiators were so rare there was no name for them in Latin or Greek.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Apr. 2026
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His pug, Thor, lives with Brenda’s sister.—
Nichole Manna,
ProPublica,
28 Apr. 2026
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Dog breeds like pugs and French and English bulldogs now have significantly altered skull shapes that result in serious, and even life-threatening, issues created by our value of aesthetics.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
24 Apr. 2026
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“Slugger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slugger. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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