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Recent Examples of reliever
Veteran reliever Kirby Yates is with Maddux for the second time.
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Jeff Fletcher, Oc Register, 11 Mar. 2026
Bryce Harper singled on a ball that hit reliever Jesus Cruz on the leg with no outs in the third inning.
—CBS News, 10 Mar. 2026
That doesn’t mean Birdsong shouldn’t have his opportunities down the road, either as a starter or a reliever.
—Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2026
But Stammen, himself something of a jack-of-all-trades as a reliever, seems to like Gillaspie as a reliever capable of working multiple innings.
—Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Mar. 2026
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Jeff Fletcher, Oc Register, 11 Mar. 2026
Bryce Harper singled on a ball that hit reliever Jesus Cruz on the leg with no outs in the third inning.
—CBS News, 10 Mar. 2026
That doesn’t mean Birdsong shouldn’t have his opportunities down the road, either as a starter or a reliever.
—Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2026
But Stammen, himself something of a jack-of-all-trades as a reliever, seems to like Gillaspie as a reliever capable of working multiple innings.
—Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reliever
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On October 14, the Bureau sent the assistant attorney general an eight-paragraph précis of the poet’s life, work, and political leanings.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Mar. 2026
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Eberflus has spent 17 seasons in the NFL as a head coach and defensive assistant, having spent last season as the DC for the Cowboys.—
Dallas Morning News,
Dallas Morning News,
5 Mar. 2026
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The Wildcats began applying more defensive pressure in the second quarter, forcing two turnovers against UConn through the first 90 seconds after the Huskies gave up two in the entire opening quarter.—
Emily Adams,
Hartford Courant,
10 Mar. 2026
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Karl-Anthony Towns led the Knicks with 35 points on 13-of-17 shooting, 12 rebounds and seven assists before fouling out in the final seconds.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Mar. 2026
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Carmen Mejia, who was declared innocent after spending more than 20 years behind bars for a wrongful conviction in a child's death in Texas, faces deportation to her native Honduras because her immigration status lapsed while she was incarcerated, her attorneys said.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
12 Mar. 2026
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Defense attorneys have argued that antifa is an ideology and not a formal organization to which the defendants belong.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
12 Mar. 2026
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But the decision to start it was his alone, and no amount of spin from his surrogates should obscure this fact.—
Yair Rosenberg,
The Atlantic,
4 Mar. 2026
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Lunden had three daughters while working at the show and went on to have four more children via surrogate in the 2000s.—
Daysia Tolentino,
Entertainment Weekly,
4 Mar. 2026
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The amount beneficiaries receive varies based on several factors, including the number of people filing.—
Asher Notheis,
The Washington Examiner,
11 Mar. 2026
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What Makes a Fire Watch Provider Different Businesses often consider several factors when choosing a fire watch provider.—
Matthew Kayser,
Miami Herald,
11 Mar. 2026
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Iran and its proxies have a long history of conducting attacks abroad.—
Colin P. Clarke,
The Atlantic,
7 Mar. 2026
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But transformation imposed at gunpoint, through a proxy force assembled in days without a clear political strategy and without a plan for the morning after, is not liberation.—
John Calabrese,
The Conversation,
7 Mar. 2026
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Nicole Crosby, a deputy city attorney who lives in Clairemont, said bike lanes don’t make a lot of sense in communities like Clairemont where hills and canyons are a major challenge.—
David Garrick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 Mar. 2026
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White House deputy chief of staff James Blair told House Republicans in a closed-door meeting at their retreat Tuesday that their messaging on deportations should focus on efforts to remove criminals from the US, a person familiar with his comments told Semafor (comments first reported by Axios).—
Shelby Talcott,
semafor.com,
11 Mar. 2026
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The partnership formed only after Wimbledon, arranged through Tien’s agent, despite the two having lived in the same Southern California tennis orbit for years without ever meeting.—
Douglas Robson,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Mar. 2026
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Bruising drops in software company stocks this year have left investors struggling to discern which firms will be least and most affected by competition from AI agents.—
Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson,
semafor.com,
6 Mar. 2026
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“Reliever.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reliever. Accessed 12 Mar. 2026.
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