Thesaurus results for PINCH HITTER

pinch hitter

noun

as in replacement

a person or thing that takes the place of another the business owners brought in a pinch hitter until a permanent manager could be hired

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Recent Examples of pinch hitter Agnifilo, Kaplan and Geragos are joining Weinstein’s team as pinch hitters ahead of his next appearance in Manhattan Supreme Court on March 4, with a trial date still to be set for the outstanding third-degree rape charge concerning an alleged assault on aspiring actor Jessica Mann in 2013. —

Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 26 Feb. 2026 Be nice to the A.M. ATL pinch hitters while I’m gone. —

Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 26 Feb. 2026 Then with two outs and two runners on in the fifth, pinch hitter Miles Renteria came through with an RBI single for El Dorado. —

Lou Ponsi, Oc Register, 25 Feb. 2026 Alex Call appeared as a pinch hitter and failed to hit the ball out of the infield, so the Blue Jays walked Shohei Ohtani (his seventh time reaching base tonight) and Mookie Betts intentionally to load the bases. —

Greg Rosenstein, NBC news, 28 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for pinch hitter

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Noun

Her replacement outfit was an Alber Elbaz Lanvin pleated knee-length—black and funerary, like the Balenciaga, but much more forgiving.

— Han Ong, New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2026
Teruaki Sato hit a game-tying RBI double before Shota Morishita, who entered the game as an injury replacement for Seiya Suziki, belted a three-run home run to give Japan a 5-2 lead.

— Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 15 Mar. 2026