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Recent Examples of lefty
Ryan Morik, Fox News, 21 Jan. 2025
The 6-foot-5, 225-pounder could provide insurance for a Giants rotation that seems set with aces Logan Webb and Justin Verlander, along with lefties Robbie Ray as well as De La Salle High product Kyle Harrison and righty Jordan Hicks.
—Jon Becker, The Mercury News, 20 Jan. 2025
Since Burnes is now gone, what do the O’s have to show for their jettisoning of Joey Ortiz and DL Hall, their top lefty SP prospect?
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 16 Jan. 2025
The Phillies could provide Kepler and Brandon Marsh, another lefty who has not hit lefty pitchers, with regular at-bats in the season’s initial months before determining whether one of them has to be platooned.
—Matt Gelb, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 2025
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The lefty won a World Series with the Yankees in 2009 in his first season on what was then the largest contract ever given to a pitcher.
—Ryan Morik, Fox News, 21 Jan. 2025
The 6-foot-5, 225-pounder could provide insurance for a Giants rotation that seems set with aces Logan Webb and Justin Verlander, along with lefties Robbie Ray as well as De La Salle High product Kyle Harrison and righty Jordan Hicks.
—Jon Becker, The Mercury News, 20 Jan. 2025
Since Burnes is now gone, what do the O’s have to show for their jettisoning of Joey Ortiz and DL Hall, their top lefty SP prospect?
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 16 Jan. 2025
The Phillies could provide Kepler and Brandon Marsh, another lefty who has not hit lefty pitchers, with regular at-bats in the season’s initial months before determining whether one of them has to be platooned.
—Matt Gelb, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lefty
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There appeared to be the votes on the Miami-Dade commission to build a modern replacement of the incinerator on the same location in Doral, until Eric Trump, who runs the president’s hospitality business, came out against the plan days after his father won the 2024 election.—
Douglas Hanks,
Miami Herald,
26 Jan. 2025
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While the hotel's interiors ooze modern sophistication (there is a sleek marble fireplace in the lobby and a statement chandelier hanging above an elegant seating area), the decor also pays homage to the property's roots.—
Dobrina Zhekova,
Travel + Leisure,
26 Jan. 2025
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Today, that spiritual vernacular endures in the western Indian state of Gujarat, where Serie Architects have completed its own contemporary homage: the new Raj Sabhagruh, centerpiece of the nearly 250-acre Shrimad Rajchandra Ashram.—
Sam Cochran,
Architectural Digest,
24 Jan. 2025
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This contemporary art museum in Miami bought the de la Cruz Collection building for $25M Manolo Blahnik has not released the address of its coming boutique that, the company said, will be centrally located within the Design District.—
Howard Cohen,
Miami Herald,
24 Jan. 2025
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Delicate floral prints and pastel pinks meet structured blouson jackets and tailored trousers in neutral tones.—
Ty Gaskins,
WWD,
31 Jan. 2025
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Once cut, the cake would show one of two colors: blue, meaning six more weeks of winter, or pink, indicating an early spring.—
Nicholas Rice,
People.com,
27 Jan. 2025
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Salah did drop back to support his team-mates defensively on occasion, but Slot’s comments showed his preference to keep the Egypt international in an advanced position to try to expose the gaps left behind by the advancing Kerkez.—
Mark Carey,
The Athletic,
3 Feb. 2025
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This significant increase in speed is accompanied by a remarkable reduction in operational resistance by 22% and a weight decrease of 10%, thanks to the use of advanced materials, such as carbon fiber composites and magnesium alloys.—
Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report,
Fox News,
2 Feb. 2025
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The 2010s resistance to Trump — that sprawling, seemingly irrepressible mass movement that joined everyone from Bush Republicans to Bernie socialists — was like little else in the modern era.—
Ross Barkan,
New York Times,
25 Jan. 2025
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But to hear Biden, who ran for the Presidency not as a democratic socialist or a social democrat but as a centrist in the party, speak out against the gathering signs of oligarchy has meaning.—
David Remnick,
The New Yorker,
16 Jan. 2025
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“Lefty.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lefty. Accessed 6 Feb. 2025.
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