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Recent Examples of reliever
The switch-hitter’s 60th came in the eighth off right-handed reliever Angel Chivilli, making Raleigh one of just seven players to hit 60 or more home runs in a season.
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Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 25 Sep. 2025
Before his clean inning Wednesday, Sasaki’s only experience pitching as a reliever was two games with Triple-A Oklahoma City to end his minor-league rehabilitation assignment last week.
—Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 25 Sep. 2025
Current New York Yankees reliever Luke Weaver spoke to MLB insiders Joel Sherman and Jon Heyman on their podcast and revealed his willingness to revert back to a starting pitcher for the right team and situation.
—Andrew Wright, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
Cleveland tacked on another pair of runs off reliever Michael Tonkin in the ninth.
—Betsy Helfand, Twin Cities, 20 Sep. 2025
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Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 25 Sep. 2025
Before his clean inning Wednesday, Sasaki’s only experience pitching as a reliever was two games with Triple-A Oklahoma City to end his minor-league rehabilitation assignment last week.
—Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 25 Sep. 2025
Current New York Yankees reliever Luke Weaver spoke to MLB insiders Joel Sherman and Jon Heyman on their podcast and revealed his willingness to revert back to a starting pitcher for the right team and situation.
—Andrew Wright, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
Cleveland tacked on another pair of runs off reliever Michael Tonkin in the ninth.
—Betsy Helfand, Twin Cities, 20 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reliever
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Darrell Smith, assistant commissioner for school choice and parent empowerment, has said about 55% are in kindergarten through fifth grade, while 23% are in middle school and 22% are in high school.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
2 Oct. 2025
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An invitation to visit a friend’s family farm in Kenya in 1956 led to an introduction with the archaeologist Louis Leakey, who hired Goodall as an assistant and secretary.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
1 Oct. 2025
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According to videos, officers waited roughly 20 seconds before detaining people.—
Quinlan Bentley,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
2 Oct. 2025
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The league will rely on its player tracking data, which uses pose data that incorporates 29 data points on a player’s body collected 60 times per second to gather their movements and positioning, to underline the endeavor.—
Mike Vorkunov,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
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Union attorneys argue the OMB overstepped its legal authority, asserting that federal law does not permit reductions in force during a lapse in appropriations.—
Amanda Castro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Oct. 2025
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Graf asked after attorneys for both sides had introduced themselves.—
Michael Ruiz,
FOXNews.com,
30 Sep. 2025
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In 2021, Greenberg and Chung welcomed twin boys via surrogate.—
Alexandra Schonfeld,
PEOPLE,
23 Sep. 2025
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Gladys needed human surrogates and a potential surrogate gorilla mom, and the Cincinnati Zoo had both.—
Bebe Hodges,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
22 Sep. 2025
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Road ahead To achieve further upside, the company will need to address several factors, including quality and recall issues as well as costs — areas Farley has tried to combat for years.—
Michael Wayland,
CNBC,
1 Oct. 2025
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As viewers know, the judges base their scores on a number of factors, including technique and performance, and can deduct points if performers break any golden dance rules.—
Jordana Comiter,
PEOPLE,
1 Oct. 2025
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Especially for consumer-facing companies (like restaurant software company Toast) there were questions about whether subscription revenue was a good proxy for ARR.—
Allie Garfinkle,
Fortune,
28 Sep. 2025
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Always fond of visual aids at his UN speeches, Netanyahu began by holding up a small map of Iran and its proxies in the region, boasting about Israeli military achievements over the past year.—
Oren Liebermann,
CNN Money,
26 Sep. 2025
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Merck’s shares jumped over 5%, amid an announcement that deputy CEO Kai Beckmann will take the reins currently held by CEO Belén Garijo.—
Tasmin Lockwood,Chloe Taylor,
CNBC,
1 Oct. 2025
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This includes 30 people in Bogo City, a coastal city near to the epicentre of the earthquake with a population of 90,000, ABC News and the BBC reported, citing OCD deputy administrator Bernardo Alejandro.—
Escher Walcott,
PEOPLE,
1 Oct. 2025
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Federal immigration agents carried out a weeklong enforcement campaign across central Florida that led to the arrest of more than 400 migrants without legal status, officials say.—
Billal Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Oct. 2025
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His plan is to pose as a Fish & Wildlife agent, there to question Catalina’s husband about poaching … and then what?—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
1 Oct. 2025
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“Reliever.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reliever. Accessed 3 Oct. 2025.
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