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Recent Examples of reliever
A day after three Padres relievers worked 3⅔ scoreless innings — the bullpen’s fourth scoreless effort in a five-game stretch — all four Padres relievers who appeared in yesterday’s game allowed at least one run.
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Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 2025
Four Naturals relievers combined to allow 1unearned run on 3 hits over the final 5 innings.
—Nwa Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 29 May 2025
So far this year, more than 58% of his pitches have been in the strike zone, a rate that is easily a personal career high (well up from his previous high mark of 52.4% last year) and ranks 18th among qualified big-league relievers.
—Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2025
On came right-hander Jake Bird, Colorado’s most reliable reliever, but Aaron Judge punched an RBI double into the left-field corner, Cody Bellinger drew another walk, and Dominguez lifted a sacrifice fly to center.
—Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 25 May 2025
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Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 2025
Four Naturals relievers combined to allow 1unearned run on 3 hits over the final 5 innings.
—Nwa Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 29 May 2025
So far this year, more than 58% of his pitches have been in the strike zone, a rate that is easily a personal career high (well up from his previous high mark of 52.4% last year) and ranks 18th among qualified big-league relievers.
—Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2025
On came right-hander Jake Bird, Colorado’s most reliable reliever, but Aaron Judge punched an RBI double into the left-field corner, Cody Bellinger drew another walk, and Dominguez lifted a sacrifice fly to center.
—Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 25 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reliever
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Wiegman’s long-time assistant, Arjan Veurink, is to leave after the tournament to take over the Netherlands’ women’s team.—
Jacob Whitehead,
New York Times,
6 June 2025
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This kind of human moderator review of chats is pretty common in the gaming world and can even apply to voice recordings made by various smart home assistants.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
5 June 2025
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Gonzalez said his home run Friday, his second of the season, included a hunting trip.—
John Maffei,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 June 2025
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The electric muscle car was gaining as much as a mile-per-hour a second, as depicted in the video above.—
Charles Singh,
USA Today,
6 June 2025
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If any inmates were denied parole because of the faulty tests, they could be owed a new hearing before the parole board, said attorneys representing inmates affected by the defective drug tests.—
Salvador Hernandez,
Los Angeles Times,
31 May 2025
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Separately, attorneys for the families of victims of the shootings at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown in 2012 filed a civil lawsuit under a different provision of the law concerning unfair trade practices.—
Christopher Keating,
Hartford Courant,
31 May 2025
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Aziza is, in many ways, the audience surrogate, which requires Young to really be present with her venom-spewing costars as new lies and revelations are unfurled.—
Patrick Ryan,
USA Today,
3 June 2025
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Moreover, data tokenization or de-identification allows sensitive information (like PII or health records) to be replaced with non-sensitive surrogates, reducing risk without compromising analytics.—
Shinoy Vengaramkode Bhaskaran,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2025
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With episodes that last barely a minute, this form of mini-entertainment owes its newfound popularity to various factors, including our ever-shrinking attention spans.—
Joan MacDonald,
Forbes.com,
3 June 2025
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The starting dose of lorazepam depends on several factors, such as the condition treated, your age, and your overall health.2 For oral forms (taken by mouth), the typical dosage ranges between 2 and 6 milligrams (mg) daily, often divided into separate doses.—
Verywell Health,
Verywell Health,
3 June 2025
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Jobless claims — a proxy for layoffs — still remain low by historical standards, suggesting that employers are reluctant to cut staff despite uncertainty over Trump’s policies.—
Paul Wiseman,
Los Angeles Times,
6 June 2025
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The sculptures are not proxies of the body so much as objects that are able to hold space in multiple ways.—
Caitlin Woolsey,
Artforum,
1 June 2025
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Any deputies who fired their weapon will be placed on administrative assignment pending the outcome of the investigation.—
David Fleshler,
Sun Sentinel,
1 June 2025
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The White House deputy press secretary, Harrison Fields, said the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is creating media to support a particular political party on the taxpayers' dime.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
1 June 2025
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Then in September, a Secret Service agent spotted the muzzle of a rifle sticking out of a fence in bushes at Trump's West Palm Beach golf club while scouting the course ahead of Trump.—
Khaleda Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 June 2025
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At Trump’s West Palm Beach, Fla., golf course on Sept. 15, a Secret Service agent scoping out the area one or two holes ahead of him saw the muzzle of an AK-47-style weapon pointing out of the tree line on the perimeter of the course.—
Andrew J. Campa,
Los Angeles Times,
4 June 2025
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“Reliever.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reliever. Accessed 14 Jun. 2025.
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