first bases

plural of first base

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for first bases
Noun
  • One of several intriguing questions from the Big 12’s offseason might have the beginnings of an answer.
    Jon Wilner, Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Intense, dramatic and often life-changing, time speeds up in this energetic tunnel with themes of endings and beginnings coming into view.
    Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The Red Sox now have five starters on the IL (Dustin May went down this week), leaving them one injury away from potentially starting either Connelly Early or Payton Tolle — who have four major-league starts between them — in a must-win wild-card game.
    Chad Jennings, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Fresh starts aren’t failure—they’re freedom.
    Marie Quintana, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Harden baselines, enforce configuration standards and turn on logging with retention that matches control language.
    Emil Sayegh, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • When play resumed in the third quarter, the clocks at the top of the backboard were back in working condition, and the reserve equipment on the baselines were taken back into storage.
    Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 1 Sep. 2025
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“First bases.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/first%20bases. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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