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Recent Examples of reliever
Kansas City Royals reliever Lucas Erceg welcomed a new addition to his household this offseason.
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Kansas City Star, 15 Feb. 2026
Wick isn’t the only injured reliever whom the Giants have signed in recent months.
—Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 15 Feb. 2026
While being used as both a reliever and starter, Riojas' debut season at Texas got off to a good start.
—Danny Davis, Austin American Statesman, 13 Feb. 2026
Over the next six weeks, the Twins will need to choose relievers and settle on roles for each.
—Betsy Helfand, Twin Cities, 11 Feb. 2026
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Kansas City Star, 15 Feb. 2026
Wick isn’t the only injured reliever whom the Giants have signed in recent months.
—Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 15 Feb. 2026
While being used as both a reliever and starter, Riojas' debut season at Texas got off to a good start.
—Danny Davis, Austin American Statesman, 13 Feb. 2026
Over the next six weeks, the Twins will need to choose relievers and settle on roles for each.
—Betsy Helfand, Twin Cities, 11 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reliever
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When the doctors and nurses refused, the agents would turn to nursing assistants or other ancillary staff who weren’t trained to handle those requests, the doctor said.—
Lauren Mascarenhas,
CNN Money,
19 Feb. 2026
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Bench coach Jeff Pickler, third base coach Andy Gonzalez, first base coach Doug Bernier, assistant hitting coach Jordan Pacheco and Schaeffer all took players aside to point out the nuances of the contact play.—
Patrick Saunders,
Denver Post,
19 Feb. 2026
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The robots also mastered high-speed cluster repositioning at speeds of 4 meters per second.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
17 Feb. 2026
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Less remembered is that GCU led by 12 midway through the second half before SDSU rallied and took the lead on Simmons’ tip-in with 58 seconds left.—
Mark Zeigler,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Feb. 2026
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The city attorney’s office also spent tens of millions of dollars on outside attorneys in a related case, with Clark and others repeatedly denying wrongdoing.—
Dakota Smith,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Feb. 2026
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Bruce Meyer, a veteran attorney and the lead labor negotiator for baseball players since 2018, was named the seventh executive director in the history of the Major League Baseball Players Association on Wednesday evening.—
Evan Drellich,
New York Times,
19 Feb. 2026
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Those eggs are then fertilized with sperm in a lab and placed in a woman’s uterus — in Bunnie and Jelly’s case, the surrogate’s.—
Hannah Dailey,
Billboard,
17 Feb. 2026
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After several years of fertility struggles, Banks welcomed a son, York Banks Asla, into her life via surrogate.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
17 Feb. 2026
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The university disputed his statement, saying the deficit is substantially lower and stems from broader institutional and external factors.—
Jaweed Kaleem,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Feb. 2026
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In his appeal, Green argued the sentence was too harsh – that Judge Samuel Cappas abused his discretion with the factors used to come up with his prison term.—
Meredith Colias-Pete,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Feb. 2026
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For better or worse, Dawson served as an emotional, often cautionary, proxy for millennials’ own coming-of-age messiness.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Feb. 2026
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The lie has become a proxy for distrust of Democratic leaders on issues across the board.—
Mark Leibovich,
The Atlantic,
11 Feb. 2026
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Hours after her post, deputies assigned to the Salton City sheriff’s station responded to a call about the discovery of human remains in Salton City.—
Ruben Vives,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Feb. 2026
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According to Reyes-English’s suit, she was hired by the city in July 2013 as a senior field deputy, also known as a council aide, in Price’s council district.—
City News Service,
Daily News,
19 Feb. 2026
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Generally, federal immigration agents are allowed in health care settings where other members of the public are permitted, like waiting rooms, but need a warrant to access private patient areas.—
Lauren Mascarenhas,
CNN Money,
19 Feb. 2026
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The singer was honored alongside her majority female team, ranging from agents to tour managers.—
Nicole Fell,
HollywoodReporter,
19 Feb. 2026
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“Reliever.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reliever. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.
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