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Recent Examples of slugfest
It was suggested that KU may have been a fatigued team Thursday after downing UCF in an overtime slugfest Wednesday night.
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Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 14 Mar. 2025
If the Jets were to make good on that status, making it out of the first round, their reward would be whoever survives the Dallas-Colorado slugfest.
—Murat Ates, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
So, expect this game to be a defensive slugfest, given how good both teams are on defense.
—Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 7 Mar. 2025
There was a late-inning rally in San Diego, a rain delay in St. Louis and a seven-home-run slugfest in Toronto.
—Chad Jennings, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
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Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 14 Mar. 2025
If the Jets were to make good on that status, making it out of the first round, their reward would be whoever survives the Dallas-Colorado slugfest.
—Murat Ates, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
So, expect this game to be a defensive slugfest, given how good both teams are on defense.
—Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 7 Mar. 2025
There was a late-inning rally in San Diego, a rain delay in St. Louis and a seven-home-run slugfest in Toronto.
—Chad Jennings, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for slugfest
Noun
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Witnesses told police a fistfight involving several men broke out inside the bar when one of the men produced a firearm.—
Paulina Dedaj,
FOXNews.com,
6 May 2025
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The Who have been an infamously fractious band for their entire career, with frequent arguments between members that have even on occasion led to fistfights.—
Jem Aswad,
Variety,
19 Apr. 2025
Noun
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In each episode, the first challenger, selected at random, must choose one of his or her neighboring opponents to go head-to-head in an epic quiz duel in the opponent’s category.—
Peter White,
Deadline,
10 May 2025
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The first challenger, selected at random, must choose one of his or her neighboring opponents to go head-to-head in an epic quiz duel in the opponent’s category.—
Jack Dunn,
Variety,
10 May 2025
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Some demons fire hellish blasts at you while others leap in with hard-hitting melee attacks.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
9 May 2025
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To his horror, Rick saw that his girlfriend Chelsea (Aimee Lou Wood) had been shot in the melee, lying near death on the ground.—
Bryan Alexander,
USA Today,
7 Apr. 2025
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Often, when shows do crossovers, the writers on one will do punch-up for their characters on the other.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
4 Jan. 2025
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Toward the end there’s a punch-up, with several players involved.—
David Szalay,
The New Yorker,
1 Dec. 2024
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Asus chose to have a punch-out camera and obscure part of the screen rather than mount it in a larger bezel, which shows how form has come ahead of function.—
Ewan Spence,
Forbes,
26 Nov. 2024
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The hard-throwing lefty dominated across 72 appearances (72.0 innings), notching a 1.75 ERA and 1.13 WHIP with 84 punch-outs.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
30 Nov. 2024
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Putin sent thousands of troops into Ukraine in February 2022, triggering the gravest confrontation between Russia and the West since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.—
USA Today,
USA Today,
12 May 2025
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While Ratcliffe seems to thrive in conflict, the Glazers do not like confrontation.—
Adam Crafton,
New York Times,
12 May 2025
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Listen to this article A 19-year-old has been arrested in connection with a fatal shooting in the Bronx after an argument outside a pizza parlor turned into an all-out brawl, police said Thursday.—
Rocco Parascandola,
New York Daily News,
1 May 2025
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So, too, was Gordon, Christian Braun, Jokić and other Nuggets nearly getting into a full-on brawl with James Harden and the Clippers on the last possession of the first half.—
Tony Jones,
New York Times,
27 Apr. 2025
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Completing the quartet is Justin Withers’ Demetrius, who unleashes his comic chops during a hilarious donnybrook.—
Rob Hubbard,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
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Saturday’s donnybrook at the Horseshoe may not have scared up the massive numbers that last year’s Ohio State-Michigan showdown delivered, but Fox’s broadcast of the 120th installment of The Game still ranks as the college football season’s second-biggest TV draw.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
4 Dec. 2024
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“Slugfest.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slugfest. Accessed 20 May. 2025.
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