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our candidate trounced her opponent in the election, winning with 76% of the vote
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To run an 81-year-old with a 38% approval rating who just got trounced in the first debate would be a risk.
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Ezra Klein, The Mercury News, 3 July 2024
Minutes after it was announced that his Renaissance party had been trounced in the European Parliament elections, President Emmanuel Macron called a snap national election – becoming the first president to do so since 1997.
—Christian Edwards, CNN, 27 June 2024
Artificial intelligence’s boost to financial markets helped the U.S. trounce the world in millionaire growth last year, when their ranks swelled by 600,000.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 8 June 2024
The episode also ends with a powerful scene of Professor Xavier beating Magneto, not through sheer force (Magneto trounced any X-Men that came at him) but by forcing him to telepathically relive the brutal death of his parents.
—Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 15 Mar. 2024
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Ezra Klein, The Mercury News, 3 July 2024
Minutes after it was announced that his Renaissance party had been trounced in the European Parliament elections, President Emmanuel Macron called a snap national election – becoming the first president to do so since 1997.
—Christian Edwards, CNN, 27 June 2024
Artificial intelligence’s boost to financial markets helped the U.S. trounce the world in millionaire growth last year, when their ranks swelled by 600,000.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 8 June 2024
The episode also ends with a powerful scene of Professor Xavier beating Magneto, not through sheer force (Magneto trounced any X-Men that came at him) but by forcing him to telepathically relive the brutal death of his parents.
—Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 15 Mar. 2024
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“Trounce.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trounce. Accessed 15 Jul. 2024.
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trounce
verb
trounced; trouncing
: to thrash or punish severely
especially
: to defeat thoroughly
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