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Recent Examples of slugfest
Given the short turnaround from Friday's slugfest, which Doncic struggled through while battling a stomach bug, the young home favorites should be the fresher side on Sunday afternoon.
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Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Apr. 2025
Their last contest was a slugfest – literally – as the Pistons and Minnesota Timberwolves got into a brawl that resulted in multiple ejections.
—Jason D. Greenblatt, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Apr. 2025
It was suggested that KU may have been a fatigued team Thursday after downing UCF in an overtime slugfest Wednesday night.
—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
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Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Apr. 2025
Their last contest was a slugfest – literally – as the Pistons and Minnesota Timberwolves got into a brawl that resulted in multiple ejections.
—Jason D. Greenblatt, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Apr. 2025
It was suggested that KU may have been a fatigued team Thursday after downing UCF in an overtime slugfest Wednesday night.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for slugfest
Noun
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The Dark Ages is more like a line dance that accidentally ends up in a fistfight.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
15 May 2025
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Sasuke and Naruto’s battle in the Final Valley (and its sequel in Shippuden) is one of the most impassioned fistfights ever drawn.—
Kambole Campbell,
Vulture,
25 Apr. 2025
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The game had the look of a pitchers’ duel going into the ninth inning with first-place Philadelphia leading 1-0 thanks to a home run from Trea Turner leading off the game.—
Chris Biderman,
Sacbee.com,
24 May 2025
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May departed with the Dodgers trailing 1-0 and was initially in line to be the hard-luck loser of a pitchers’ duel with Burnes, but Hernandez changed that with one swing.—
Kyle Glaser,
Oc Register,
22 May 2025
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The Fix Kit, meanwhile, comes equipped with a massive wrench that doubles as a damaging melee weapon and a tool used to fix machinery.—
Jason Fanelli,
Rolling Stone,
14 May 2025
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The incident outside the detention center resulted in a melee and ended with the Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, a Democrat who is also running for New Jersey governor, getting arrested.—
Luke Barr,
ABC News,
14 May 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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After the tense confrontation, the expecting mom went on to refer to the villain arc fans observed from Engemann during season 2 of the hit show.—
Zoey Lyttle,
People.com,
22 May 2025
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Manuel Vega Lopez, 51, died of gunshot wounds following a confrontation outside a Gilbert home shortly before 4:30 p.m. Monday, May 19, police said in a news release.—
Don Sweeney,
Sacbee.com,
21 May 2025
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Authorities attempted to limit the violence on the Seaside Heights boardwalk over the holiday weekend by imposing a 10 p.m. curfew on unaccompanied minors, but the brawls continued anyway, WABC reported.—
Joseph Wilkinson,
New York Daily News,
26 May 2025
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No one could agree on whether the brawl of as many as nine young men was limited to fists or if its participants were also kicking and stomping.—
Emerson Clarridge,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
23 May 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 4 Jun. 2025.
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