as in substitutes
to serve as a replacement usually for a time only
assigned to pinch-hit as a math teacher for the remainder of the semester
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Recent Examples of pinch-hits
Eighteen players have at least 100 pinch-hits in their career.
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Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2026
Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pinch-hits
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Agreed, but this bill substitutes the long, painstaking and complex work of fixing California’s troubled insurance market with finger-pointing and posturing.—
Steven Greenhut,
Oc Register,
12 Apr. 2026
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Rosenson said that if CRISPR is a scissor that cuts both strands of DNA, base editing is an eraser that substitutes one chemical letter, or base, in a single strand of DNA.—
David Cox,
NBC news,
6 Apr. 2026
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The timing of Tim Cook’s departure from Apple spells good things for the company’s fiscal second-quarter earnings report, set to be released on April 30, Wall Street analysts are buzzing.—
Tobias Burns,
CNBC,
21 Apr. 2026
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Not everyone thinks this spells disaster, however.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
6 Apr. 2026
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“Pinch-hits.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pinch-hits. Accessed 29 Apr. 2026.
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