pinch-hit

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 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 Down 5-3, Carlos Mendoza put in Jesse Winker to pinch-hit for Luis Torrens with Alonso on third and Iglesias on first. Fiifi Frimpong, New York Daily News, 7 Aug. 2024 The two, playing because of Quintana’s left arm, totaled zero hits and four strikeouts before being pinch-hit for in the seventh. Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 23 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for pinch-hit 

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“Pinch-hit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pinch-hit. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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