as in to substitute
to serve as a replacement usually for a time only
assigned to pinch-hit as a math teacher for the remainder of the semester
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Recent Examples of pinch-hit
Lux was not in the lineup for Game 2 but was available to pinch-hit.
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Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2024
Heyward was reduced to a pinch-hitting role when Mookie Betts moved from shortstop back to right field upon returning from a left-hand fracture on Aug. 12.
—Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2024
His hitters, of course, deserve the lion’s share of the credit for Baltimore being baseball’s best pinch-hitting team, and Hyde’s decisions haven’t always worked this year — with Tuesday a prime example.
—Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 11 Aug. 2024
Ghesquière volunteered to pinch-hit as the photographer for two ad campaigns that June, including one with the tennis star Naomi Osaka, fully aware that the shoots would send him back to LA.
—Nathan Heller, Vogue, 8 Aug. 2024
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Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2024
Heyward was reduced to a pinch-hitting role when Mookie Betts moved from shortstop back to right field upon returning from a left-hand fracture on Aug. 12.
—Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2024
His hitters, of course, deserve the lion’s share of the credit for Baltimore being baseball’s best pinch-hitting team, and Hyde’s decisions haven’t always worked this year — with Tuesday a prime example.
—Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 11 Aug. 2024
Ghesquière volunteered to pinch-hit as the photographer for two ad campaigns that June, including one with the tennis star Naomi Osaka, fully aware that the shoots would send him back to LA.
—Nathan Heller, Vogue, 8 Aug. 2024
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“Pinch-hit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pinch-hit. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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