slug
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Bonta and Paramount are now poised to slug it out next spring in an Oakland courtroom.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
After winning plaudits across the globe for his World Cup performances with Cape Verde, goalkeeper Vozinha has another honour - with a newly discovered species of sea slug being named after him.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
Data collected by 28 "slug sleuths" has helped researchers from Harper Adams University find environmentally friendly slug control methods in the form of "prediction maps".
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
This could encourage investments in boosting production, introducing a slug of supply into global markets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
Aplysia, a sea slug that looks as though it couldn’t be good for anything, has been found by neurophysiologists to be filled with truth.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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The labor market’s recovery adds to signs Canada’s economy is settling after being slugged by trade uncertainty and U.S. tariffs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
He slugged it out brilliantly with Mr Vango that day; the two of them were like Wilder-Chisora take two.
From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2026
“In the end, they not only ran it back, they sprinted it back, they slugged it back, and then, finally, they literally Will-ed it back,” I wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2025
He was facing Cardinals catcher Pedro Pagés, a weak hitter who slugged .363 for the year.
From Slate ● Nov. 11, 2025
She went to her computer and wrote some code, walked a set of punch cards to the mainframe in another building, and waited while it slugged through the calculations.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
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Schick revolutionized shaving with injector razors and multiblades in a single cartridge, slugging it out in the marketplace for decades with rival shaving giant Gillette.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026
Teoscar Hernández hasn’t been slugging the way he’s accustomed to.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
Mr. Lewis documented how Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland Athletics, seemed to have figured out offense by emphasizing slugging and on-base percentage over batting average.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
That could have mitigated the Dodgers’ huge advantage in slugging.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2026
Russian forces stopped the German advance just short of Moscow, but the two massive armies were still slugging it out along a battlefront stretching 1,500 miles from north to south.
From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin
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