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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Each pugilist has three statistics, displayed via a bar system.
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Each of the three men who were about to become my putative godfathers was a former pugilist .
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His adversaries include still more cossacks, a border guard or two, a rabbi, and a pugilist .
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Marjorie puts up her fists like a pugilist , groans and pushes him away.
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There was a long-standing tradition of professionalism, which centred around jockeys and pugilists for the most part.