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Recent Examples of lefty
Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 23 Apr. 2026
The lefty reliever allowed Jake Burger's two-run single in the eighth that tied the score at 4-all.
—CBS News, 23 Apr. 2026
Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 26 Apr. 2026
Jovani Moran gave up Baltimore’s sixth home run on a solo shot by Coby Mayo in the fifth, but otherwise the Red Sox lefty got things under control and allowed one run on three hits over 2 2/3 innings.
—Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 25 Apr. 2026
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Adjective
But Gobert again stuck to his hip just well enough to make Jokic’s lefty layup attempt difficult.
—Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 23 Apr. 2026
The lefty reliever allowed Jake Burger's two-run single in the eighth that tied the score at 4-all.
—CBS News, 23 Apr. 2026
Noun
In the first game of the afternoon, Quintana, the 37-year-old lefty, gave Colorado 5 1/3 superb innings.
—Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 26 Apr. 2026
Jovani Moran gave up Baltimore’s sixth home run on a solo shot by Coby Mayo in the fifth, but otherwise the Red Sox lefty got things under control and allowed one run on three hits over 2 2/3 innings.
—Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 25 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lefty
Adjective
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Yet another secondary effect of the Iran war is the expansion of modern drone warfare to the Persian Gulf region.—
Sudarsan Raghavan,
New Yorker,
28 Apr. 2026
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Clinics use modern equipment and high-quality materials and keep prices affordable.—
K.H. Koehler,
USA Today,
28 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Jeremy Corbyn, the septuagenarian British leftist, who had already arrived in Havana by plane, met with high-ranking Communist Party officials in the presidential palace.—
Gisela Salim-Peyer,
The Atlantic,
23 Apr. 2026
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Melton’s Austin starts as a baby leftist crying over a dead bee, then becomes torn between the authentic Korean cultural education Chairwoman Park claims to offer him and the increasingly ambitious Ashley, who wants to leverage Austin’s heritage for her own personal gain.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
16 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Blame the rules laid down by ultraleft politicians.—
WSJ,
WSJ,
6 Dec. 2021
Noun
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My general experience with campaigns is that winning candidates are almost always those who attack their opponents remorselessly and relentlessly — those who convince the voters that the other guy is a racist, a pinko, a warmonger, a coward, a crook, a greedy capitalist, whatever.—
Dan McLaughlin,
National Review,
18 Jan. 2024
Adjective
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Yet cross-cultural influence continues to be a key subject of art history, and quotation is still a commonplace practice in contemporary art.—
Glenn Adamson,
Artforum,
2 May 2026
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British literature of the Romantic, or modern, or contemporary periods; and then film or, finally, linguistics.—
Michael Gorra,
The New York Review of Books,
1 May 2026
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For pools with a light colored bottom, neon pink and orange were the most visible in calm and agitated waters.—
Cody Godwin,
USA Today,
1 May 2026
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For women over 40 looking for the perfect bold crimson or angelic pink, the color payoff is professional-grade, delivering long-lasting saturation that remains nondrying throughout the day.—
Micaela English,
Glamour,
30 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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With three Game 6s taking place on Thursday, two teams advanced to the second round.—
Dan Santaromita,
New York Times,
1 May 2026
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Satellite images showed that Tehran’s main targets included advanced radar systems, communications systems and aircraft.—
Kevin Liptak,
CNN Money,
1 May 2026
Noun
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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, a devout socialist and one of the most vocal opponents of the Pentagon’s Operation Epic Fury in Iran, brushed off the threat of being removed from the alliance.—
Mike Brest,
The Washington Examiner,
24 Apr. 2026
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He was later pardoned and won election for president as a socialist in 1999.—
CBS Miami Team,
CBS News,
21 Apr. 2026
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“Lefty.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lefty. Accessed 7 May. 2026.
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