field day

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Recent Examples of field day Superhero films thrive on a vivid sense of time and place, and Shakman’s crew has an absolute field day with the mid-century modernism of Earth-828, every design choice of which radiates the modular optimism of a world that believes in itself. David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 22 July 2025 The internet is having a field day after Coldplay frontman Chris Martin accidentally put a spotlight on an unwilling couple. Shania Russell, EW.com, 17 July 2025 Weeks leading up to Independence Day are jam-packed with various events such as a pageant contest, field day, carnival, concerts, and more. Ashley J. Dimella, FOXNews.com, 4 July 2025 The competitive aspect of field day, held annually in the U.S. since 1933, is to contact as many other amateur stations as possible during 24 hours over June 28-29. Orlando Sentinel Staff, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for field day
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Noun
  • On Wednesday, Prince Harry will be back in London for an outing at Imperial College London's Centre for Blast Injury Studies.
    Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE, 9 Sep. 2025
  • His only appearance in the opening three league matches was a brief outing away to Newcastle United.
    James Pearce, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Skeptics wonder if the true intention is to undermine efforts to move away from Confederate associations, an issue that has long split people who favor preserving an aspect of southern heritage and those who want slavery-supporting revels stripped of valor.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 28 July 2025
  • So the couple also decided to give Huckleberry an important role in their gender revel.
    Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 June 2025
Noun
  • Residents of the Nurgal district of Kunar have left their homes to live in tents, on the surrounding high land near a river, or in the open, for fear of more tremors.
    Mohammad Yunus Yawar, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The gap lower at the open is what most traders are watching.
    Jay Woods, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But no matter who did what, Solo is a pretty entertaining, sometimes inspired lark that imagines how Han Solo (a really quite fine Alden Ehrenreich) met Chewbacca and Lando.
    Will Leitch, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2025
  • No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.
    Kevin Dickinson, Big Think, 8 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • A number of challenger firms have risen up in recent years to try to compete with Nielsen in the ratings derby, and as a strategic move some firms have promoted their deals with newer measurement firms like VideoAmp or iSpot.
    Dade Hayes, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The hot dog derby is a staple at baseball games that began as a virtual dot on screens inside the stadium in the 1980s and 1990s, according to the Royals.
    Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 30 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • His shakshuka takes the tomato-and-pepper mold and spins it into a gambol through fields of celery and coriander seeds, ground chipotles and sweet paprika.
    Scott Hocker, theweek, 26 Nov. 2024
  • In the winning first moments of the show, Mills gambols on as the Narrator, wielding a paint palette and, instead of a brush, a tuft of rainbow-colored gauze.
    Celia Wren, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2023
Noun
  • Running a gymkhana in the 600SL would be like asking Her Majesty to run a boot-camp obstacle course.
    Frank Markus, Car and Driver, 2 Jan. 2023
  • Veronica Duncan knew at once what to look for in a pony or a horse, after all those gymkhanas and point-to-points.
    The Economist, The Economist, 12 Oct. 2017
Noun
  • The Bulls jumped into my top 25 after a season-opening romp against Boise State in Week 1, but most of the rest of the country was cautious.
    Chris Vannini, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • In this laugh-a-minute romp, Keke Palmer and SZA star as two down-on-their-luck besties and roommates who discover (much too late) that one of their boyfriends squandered their rent money.
    James Mercadante, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025

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