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Recent Examples of right-hander
After a promising rookie campaign in 2023, the hard-throwing right-hander had made the Dodgers’ 2024 opening-day rotation.
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Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2025
The right-hander struck out two in a scoreless eighth.
—Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 17 Apr. 2025
Rosenthal, who joined the Dodgers 10 years ago, also was the scout behind the 2018 selections of first baseman Michael Busch, now with the Chicago Cubs, and right-hander Michael Grove, who is inactive for the Dodgers this season after undergoing shoulder surgery.
—Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2025
The right-hander extended his scoreless inning streak to seven innings with 1 1/3 against Toronto.
—Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 6 Apr. 2025
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Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2025
The right-hander struck out two in a scoreless eighth.
—Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 17 Apr. 2025
Rosenthal, who joined the Dodgers 10 years ago, also was the scout behind the 2018 selections of first baseman Michael Busch, now with the Chicago Cubs, and right-hander Michael Grove, who is inactive for the Dodgers this season after undergoing shoulder surgery.
—Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2025
The right-hander extended his scoreless inning streak to seven innings with 1 1/3 against Toronto.
—Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 6 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for right-hander
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Only a small percentage of those players could survive Tyson's flurry of instant-knockdown uppercuts and emerge victorious with the undisputed World Video Boxing Association championship.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
9 Feb. 2025
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In Salt Lake, that’s the equivalent of an uppercut to the chin.—
Tom Smyth,
Vulture,
29 Jan. 2025
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Push your hips back and bend your knees to lower down, keeping your chest up and core engaged.—
Jordan Smith,
SELF,
14 Apr. 2025
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Immediate emotion fell over McIlroy, tossing his putter and hat in the air and letting out a huge scream just before falling to his knees as the crowd on hand cheered him on.—
Jacob Lev,
CNN Money,
13 Apr. 2025
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Orioles prospect Jud Fabian's strikeout rate has fallen 13 percentage points and his walk rate has doubled as a result of a swing change.—
Jacob Calvin Meyer,
Baltimore Sun,
22 Apr. 2025
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Such players tend to have holes in their swings that are eventually exploited by opposing pitchers.—
Tony Blengino,
Forbes.com,
21 Apr. 2025
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Another sidewinder on the deuce side had the same result.—
Matthew Futterman,
The Athletic,
16 Mar. 2025
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South Shore Terrace's 2023 sales In 2023, South Shore Terrace served more than 100,000 beers, 15,000 non-alcoholic drinks, 25,000 orders of sidewinder fries, 5,500 orders of cheese curds and 5,000 pretzels.—
Hannah Kirby,
Journal Sentinel,
1 Apr. 2024
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On issues ranging from education policy and voting rights to congestion pricing, the series of rulings and developments marked the latest legal setbacks for an administration battling nearly 200 lawsuits in court.—
Peter Charalambous,
ABC News,
24 Apr. 2025
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Though the agency is prohibited from censorship or infringing the First Amendment rights of media, broadcasters cannot intentionally distort the news.—
Dawn Chmielewski,
USA Today,
24 Apr. 2025
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The debate among Democrats is emerging as Republicans go on offense on the matter, putting a spotlight on the left’s response.—
Mychael Schnell,
The Hill,
22 Apr. 2025
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The restaurant was small and noisy, but the glasses ignored two women talking loudly at a table to my left.—
David Owen,
New Yorker,
21 Apr. 2025
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Over the past few months, videos of China’s humanoid robots performing bike rides, roundhouse kicks and side flips have blown up the internet, often amplified by state media as a key potential driver of economic growth.—
Chris Lau,
CNN Money,
19 Apr. 2025
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My father would drive me to the Falls Road roundhouse where the old steam engines were arrayed in their stalls in contrast to the fast and sleek new trains at the nearby Pennsylvania and Mount Royal stations.—
Jacques Kelly,
Baltimore Sun,
29 Mar. 2025
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And naturally, the nightmare of sitting under the bleachers next to Michaels as one of your babies falls flat on its face during the Saturday-night dry run is like a devastating body blow to the ego.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
16 Jan. 2025
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And losing a place where people can hear or perform live music is a body blow to the vibrancy everyone seems to want downtown.—
Sal Pizarro,
The Mercury News,
14 Jan. 2025
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“Right-hander.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/right-hander. Accessed 28 Apr. 2025.
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