FIRST BASES Synonyms: 66 Similar and Opposite Words

first bases

noun

plural of first base

as in drawing boards

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Edwards has been especially effective at the outsets of these early round series.

— Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 14 Apr. 2026

Definition of outsets

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Amin Joseph is 46, playing Sonny Liston, who was in his early-to-mid 30s, but Liston was an old 33, having spent years in prison after his rough and impoverished beginnings.

— Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 3 Nov. 2026
The women to Vermont State-Castleton in overtime, the men to Johnson & Wales, but this was a night about beginnings, everything that happened a first.

— Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 1 Nov. 2026

Definition of beginnings

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The 2016 Cubs, along with the Toronto Blue Jays that year, are the last to have five pitchers each make at least 29 starts during a regular season.

— Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 2 Nov. 2026
Both teams got off to sluggish starts with the Nets taking a 12-10 lead on Randle's 3-pointer with less than five minutes left in the first quarter.

— CBS New York Team, CBS News, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of starts

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Establish baselines before deployment, redesign roles and develop skills as needed and define how people will supervise agents.

— Lakshmanan Alagappan, Forbes.com, 6 Nov. 2026
The report cited recent Stanford research showing that frontier models have saturated standard coding benchmarks and reached or even surpassed human baselines on complex scientific, mathematical and reasoning tasks.

— Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 29 Oct. 2026

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