battler
Example Sentences
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"I know Craig is a battler and he has proved it by his survival of this awful ordeal."
From BBC ● May 22, 2024
Often in conversations with Roth, one hears how the battler — he boxed as a youth in Brooklyn — holds his ground until that moment not of surrender but of equanimity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2023
His career as a battler was just beginning to take off when iBattle, a league he grew up performing in, started to decline.
From New York Times ● Jun. 14, 2023
Relegation battler Ajaccio got a boost by beating fellow struggler Strasbourg 4-2, with all the goals coming in the first half.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 5, 2022
There, in the little natural amphitheatre, with only the ancient trees as silent witnesses, was staged again the oft-fought fight between the boxer and the battler, but the decision was not to rest on points.
From 'Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands by Taylor, H. Weston
