squeeze play

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Recent Examples of squeeze play With runners on first and third and one out, San Ysidro pulled off a squeeze play. Clark Fahrenthold, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Apr. 2025 Laureano, the automatic runner in the 10th, got caught in a rundown on a squeeze play and some words were exchanged after a collision involving outfielder Francisco Alvarez. Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 26 July 2024 Heyward, Lux and Taylor (on a bunt squeeze play) all hit late singles Tuesday afternoon in the Dodgers’ skid-snapping, come-from-behind win. Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2024 The Alabama-Wake Forest, due to the delay, will be broadcast as part of ESPN’s squeeze play. Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 10 June 2023 See All Example Sentences for squeeze play
Recent Examples of Synonyms for squeeze play
Noun
  • The song officially released last Friday, includes a dig at her ex-husband Offset and name-drops her new squeeze, New England Patriots wide receiver Stefon Diggs.
    Jem Aswad, Variety, 23 June 2025
  • As consumers got ready for Christmas, their focus shifted to gifting and holiday hosting, buying gift wrap cutters, mini strings of lights, sensory squeeze toys, and emergency fire blankets.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 21 June 2025
Noun
  • For residents in the New York tristate area, the threat is particularly severe.
    Youri Benadjaoud, ABC News, 7 July 2025
  • The threat of tariffs have also failed to convince Apple to bring iPhone manufacturing to the United States, Hollywood to make more movies in Los Angeles, or US automakers to close their Canadian and Mexican factories.
    David Goldman, CNN Money, 7 July 2025
Noun
  • And any fear—and hence bigger discounts—caused by overwrought debt worries just makes our opportunity even sweeter.
    Michael Foster, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
  • After a den of thieves ransacked a rural Northern California home so many times that the owner fled in fear, the property fell into even wilder hands: a group of bears, authorities said.
    Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2025
Noun
  • Traces of the wooden hilt are still visible on the preserved sword.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 7 July 2025
  • The medieval sword was given to a specialty conservation workshop for further preservation and analysis, Science in Poland said in a July 4 news release.
    Aspen Pflughoeft July 4, Miami Herald, 4 July 2025
Noun
  • Aquarius: Doctor Octopus, aka Doc Ock Doctor Octopus, a multi-armed maniacal menace who's regarded as one of Spider-Man's most infamous enemies, aligns with Aquarius.
    Skyler Caruso, People.com, 30 June 2025
  • Director Robert Eggers' remake of the horror classic finally comes to Amazon, with Lily-Rose Depp as a woman who's the obsession of an undead mustached menace (Bill Skarsgård).
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 28 June 2025
Noun
  • Start half strength liquid fertilizer applications weekly after the seeds germinate.
    Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 June 2025
  • Even these young players already have major tournament experience — a huge strength given their tough group.
    Megan Feringa, New York Times, 28 June 2025
Noun
  • His spouse is perilously close to beginning an affair with the best man at their wedding, now one of his authors, a war poet disillusioned by violence and fanaticism.
    Thomas Mallon, New Yorker, 30 June 2025
  • According to the Centers for Disease Control, one in 4 women and one in 7 men have experienced severe intimate partner violence.
    Liz Roberts, New York Daily News, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • On May 23, in a game against the Baltimore Orioles at Fenway Park the 31-year-old two-time All-Star suffered a strained right quadriceps muscle, and has been on the injured list ever since.
    Jon Vankin, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 July 2025
  • It was first approved to ease muscle spasticity for people with multiple sclerosis in Canada in 2005 and has since been approved in more than 20 other countries globally.
    Will Yakowicz, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025

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