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Recent Examples of right-hander
The Red Sox right-hander threw to third base, but the ball got past third baseman Alex Bregman.
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Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 11 May 2025
If the Pirates are out of the hunt, Kansas City could be an ideal spot for the right-hander to land.
—Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Apr. 2025
The 24-year-old right-hander finished with a 4.19 ERA in the hitter-friendly Pacific Coast League.
—Chandler Rome, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
The Yankees were willing to enter the season with Weaver, whose emergence gave them enough empirical evidence that the right-hander was up the role.
—Larry Fleisher, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025
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Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 11 May 2025
If the Pirates are out of the hunt, Kansas City could be an ideal spot for the right-hander to land.
—Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Apr. 2025
The 24-year-old right-hander finished with a 4.19 ERA in the hitter-friendly Pacific Coast League.
—Chandler Rome, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
The Yankees were willing to enter the season with Weaver, whose emergence gave them enough empirical evidence that the right-hander was up the role.
—Larry Fleisher, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for right-hander
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Another thing Eubank needs to avoid is getting reckless with his uppercuts, stepping in from distance without setting up his power punches.—
Trent Reinsmith,
Forbes.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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Only a small percentage of those players could survive Tyson's flurry of instant-knockdown uppercuts and emerge victorious with the undisputed World Video Boxing Association championship.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
9 Feb. 2025
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Slater retroactively went on the IL on April 11 and underwent surgery on April 15 to repair a meniscus tear in his right knee.—
LaMond Pope,
Chicago Tribune,
20 May 2025
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The Panthers held a 2-1 edge in the regular-season series between the two, but Carolina starter Frederik Andersen was on the sidelines with a knee injury for all three of those games.—
Carol Schram,
Forbes.com,
20 May 2025
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The Braves began the season with a seven-game swing through Southern California with four games against the San Diego Padres and three versus the Los Angeles Dodgers.—
John Perrotto,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2025
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Just looking at swing length alone, Harris II, Contreras, Ramos, Langeliers, Soto and Naylor have all shortened their swings by more than 2 inches, and Vientos and Lindor have shortened them by at least an inch.—
Eno Sarris,
New York Times,
16 May 2025
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Another sidewinder on the deuce side had the same result.—
Matthew Futterman,
The Athletic,
16 Mar. 2025
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South Shore Terrace's 2023 sales In 2023, South Shore Terrace served more than 100,000 beers, 15,000 non-alcoholic drinks, 25,000 orders of sidewinder fries, 5,500 orders of cheese curds and 5,000 pretzels.—
Hannah Kirby,
Journal Sentinel,
1 Apr. 2024
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The rights to Gregory Maguire's 1995 novel Wicked were quickly snatched up for a movie adaptation, with Demi Moore's production company optioning.—
EW Staff,
EW.com,
18 May 2025
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Earlier this year President Trump signed an executive order which seeks to restrict this right, which was established by the 14th Amendment in 1868.—
Ramon Padilla,
USA Today,
18 May 2025
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But people on the left might favor technologies that would mitigate climate change over weapons and rockets.—
Emma Green,
New Yorker,
16 May 2025
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Moments Example of the hidden picture puzzles in the black/white images on the left; the corresponding real-world picture on the right.—
Sam Walters,
Discover Magazine,
16 May 2025
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Over the past few months, videos of China’s humanoid robots performing bike rides, roundhouse kicks and side flips have blown up the internet, often amplified by state media as a key potential driver of economic growth.—
Chris Lau,
CNN Money,
19 Apr. 2025
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My father would drive me to the Falls Road roundhouse where the old steam engines were arrayed in their stalls in contrast to the fast and sleek new trains at the nearby Pennsylvania and Mount Royal stations.—
Jacques Kelly,
Baltimore Sun,
29 Mar. 2025
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Remember the body blow of injustice, and don’t get mad — get hungry.—
Pat Beall,
Sun Sentinel,
9 May 2025
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Australia hasn’t been subject to the body blows that Mr. Trump has delivered to other longstanding U.S. allies, and that have become a factor in at least one recent election — like threatening Canada’s sovereignty and calling into doubt the future of military alliances with Europe.—
Victoria Kim,
New York Times,
4 May 2025
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“Right-hander.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/right-hander. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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