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Recent Examples of stumblebum
As opposed to palookas and has-beens and tin cans and stumblebums, a player who got waived departed with his dignity intact.
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Joe Queenan, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2018
The physicians lining up with Teirstein are not a bunch of stumblebums afraid of a few tests.
—Kurt Eichenwald, Newsweek, 10 Mar. 2015
From the mid-1960s through the early ’70s, my prime rooting years, the Yankees were a team of stumblebums not even redeemed by charm.
—James Traub, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2017
Gerald Ford, for all his stumblebum image, was a Yale Law School graduate and veteran of legislative details.
—James Fallows, The Atlantic, 20 July 2017
Joe Queenan, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2018
The physicians lining up with Teirstein are not a bunch of stumblebums afraid of a few tests.
—Kurt Eichenwald, Newsweek, 10 Mar. 2015
From the mid-1960s through the early ’70s, my prime rooting years, the Yankees were a team of stumblebums not even redeemed by charm.
—James Traub, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2017
Gerald Ford, for all his stumblebum image, was a Yale Law School graduate and veteran of legislative details.
—James Fallows, The Atlantic, 20 July 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stumblebum
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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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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
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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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The undercard:Arizona boxer Abel Ramos ready for his title shot on Mike Tyson vs Jake Paul card Reach the reporter at [email protected].Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 22 Nov. 2024
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The streamer says 108 million people worldwide watched social media star turned boxer Paul beat the 58-year-old former heavyweight champion.Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Nov. 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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Nowhere is that bond stronger than with hip-hop, with prizefighters walking out to the ring with their favorite artists, rap verses referencing greats of the sport, and boxers dropping albums of their own.Justin Koreis, Rolling Stone, 12 Oct. 2024
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Plenty a duffer who opposed the invasion of Iraq and the privatization of Social Security has gone on to invoke the line in admiring jest.Ben McGrath, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
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Many duffers would pick two-time major PGA Tour champion John Daly, whose on-and-off course feats have become legend.Richard Johnson, New York Daily News, 14 July 2024
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Carbajal does some dapper clowning around and Morales-Woolery is a very funny faux pugilist but the comedy never quite catches fire.Karen D'Souza, The Mercury News, 23 Sep. 2024
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Bloom is the center of the drama, his handsome leading man visage transformed by prosthetics that give him a broken nose, cauliflower ears, and a pugilist's demeanor.Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 6 Sep. 2024
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Like his father, Lucius is enslaved and forced to fight as a gladiator for the entertainment of a wealthy Roman emperor and hordes of bloodthirsty spectators.Anya Jaremko-Greenwold, The Week US, theweek, 8 Nov. 2024
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Many gladiators only lived to their mid-20s, per the source.Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 10 Oct. 2024
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Rarely are comedians the beautiful people, and this is true of pugs among dogs.Alex Distefano, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2024
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Tom and Cynthia have birds, lizards, cats and dogs — including a pug named Frank who frequently makes appearances on Tom’s Instagram.Emily Blackwood, People.com, 31 Oct. 2024
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“Stumblebum.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stumblebum. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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