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The lineup is missing a dominant slugger who is a constant threat to get on base and change the game with one swing.
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Chicago Tribune, 19 Nov. 2024
This change will help all right-handed hitters at Camden Yards — and even a slight one to left-handed sluggers.
—Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 18 Nov. 2024
These days, Phillips is able to observe the New York rivalry from a distance as the two teams battle for free agent slugger Juan Soto.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2024
By Opening Day 2025, one Major League Baseball team will have superstar slugger Juan Soto in tow, threatening to fill up box scores with home runs and RBIs — all while adding a series of zeros to his checking account.
—David K. Li, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
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Chicago Tribune, 19 Nov. 2024
This change will help all right-handed hitters at Camden Yards — and even a slight one to left-handed sluggers.
—Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 18 Nov. 2024
These days, Phillips is able to observe the New York rivalry from a distance as the two teams battle for free agent slugger Juan Soto.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2024
By Opening Day 2025, one Major League Baseball team will have superstar slugger Juan Soto in tow, threatening to fill up box scores with home runs and RBIs — all while adding a series of zeros to his checking account.
—David K. Li, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
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Seeing double Sydney Sweeney's latest role as professional boxer Christy Martin has left her unrecognizable.Lori A Bashian Fox News, Fox News, 30 Nov. 2024
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Advertisement The residue — which was found on items including socks, boxers, tank tops, sweatpants, jeans, hoodies, underwear and a pair of cow onesie pajamas — tested positive for methamphetamine, federal prosecutors say.Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2024
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Huston’s heart is certainly in the right place and the narrative corner he’s written for Mike to fight his way out of isn’t an untenable one for a pugilist melodrama.Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
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The pugilists completed all eight rounds, sparking some grumbling online that Paul was holding back against Tyson in some way.Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Nov. 2024
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Long assumed to be man-eaters, hammerhead sharks live in Florida, but very rarely bother humans. Sharks to watch out for in Florida (click for more): Bull Shark The prizefighter of the ocean: stout, surly and stubborn.Erik Vance, New York Times, 26 July 2024
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And then New York ended the series an evening later, on a tenth-inning homer by Soto, whose numerous baseball talents include a prizefighter’s swaggering eagerness to shuffle and then pounce.Nicholas Dawidoff, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 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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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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Starring Paul Mescal as Lucius, a young prisoner turned gladiator, this sequel goes bigger and wilder than its predecessor, including monkeys, rhinos and even sharks within its grand action sequences.Manuel Betancourt, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
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However, to paraphrase a Mack 10 quote from an Unsung episode on DJ Quik, rap is also a gladiator sport.Mosi Reeves, Rolling Stone, 25 Nov. 2024
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The pug, named Vito, is the No. 1 pug in all show systems and the No. 2 toy dog in the U.S, according to a release.Rob Wile, NBC News, 28 Nov. 2024
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Photo: courtesy of Ben Mezrich Ben and Tonya Mezrich’s country house is in rural Vermont, but because it’s ruled by their pugs, Bagel and Cream Cheese, as well as their two school-age children, its defining quality is not so much pastoral tranquility as a kind of happy domestic chaos.Simon van Zuylen-Wood, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2024
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“Slugger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slugger. Accessed 17 Dec. 2024.
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