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Recent Examples of roster State of The Saints’ Quarterback Room With the Saints previous starter officially off the roster, Spencer Rattler, Jake Haener and Tyler Shough are the team’s remaining quarterback options. Kambui Bomani, Forbes.com, 10 May 2025 The lefty pitched for the Twins between 2020-22 and returned as a minor league free agent in 2023, fighting to make the roster in spring training. Betsy Helfand, Twin Cities, 10 May 2025 Had the roster been better constructed or if there weren’t so many positional logjams, the Red Sox could have avoided all of the Devers drama and maybe also found a way to get Roman Anthony and Marcelo Mayer to the big leagues by now, too. Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 10 May 2025 Frost has revamped the roster by avoiding the pitfalls of focusing too much on star players and rankings. Matt Murschel, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for roster
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Noun
  • First up on Henry’s list was Tia Williams’ A Love Song for Ricki WIlde.
    Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 13 May 2025
  • Spoelstra is also already the winningest head coach in franchise history in both the regular season (787 wins) and playoffs (110 wins), passing Riley on both lists.
    Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 13 May 2025
Noun
  • Event listings should be submitted at least two weeks in advance.
    Linda Mcintosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 May 2025
  • The listing is held by David Kramer and Andrew Buss of the David Kramer Group at Compass.
    Mya Abraham, VIBE.com, 15 May 2025

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“Roster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/roster. Accessed 25 May. 2025.

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