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Recent Examples of reliever
A day after three Padres relievers worked 3⅔ scoreless innings — the bullpen’s fourth scoreless effort in a five-game stretch — all four Padres relievers who appeared in yesterday’s game allowed at least one run.
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Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 2025
Four Naturals relievers combined to allow 1unearned run on 3 hits over the final 5 innings.
—Nwa Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 29 May 2025
So far this year, more than 58% of his pitches have been in the strike zone, a rate that is easily a personal career high (well up from his previous high mark of 52.4% last year) and ranks 18th among qualified big-league relievers.
—Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2025
On came right-hander Jake Bird, Colorado’s most reliable reliever, but Aaron Judge punched an RBI double into the left-field corner, Cody Bellinger drew another walk, and Dominguez lifted a sacrifice fly to center.
—Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 25 May 2025
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Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 2025
Four Naturals relievers combined to allow 1unearned run on 3 hits over the final 5 innings.
—Nwa Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 29 May 2025
So far this year, more than 58% of his pitches have been in the strike zone, a rate that is easily a personal career high (well up from his previous high mark of 52.4% last year) and ranks 18th among qualified big-league relievers.
—Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2025
On came right-hander Jake Bird, Colorado’s most reliable reliever, but Aaron Judge punched an RBI double into the left-field corner, Cody Bellinger drew another walk, and Dominguez lifted a sacrifice fly to center.
—Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 25 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reliever
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Wiegman’s long-time assistant, Arjan Veurink, is to leave after the tournament to take over the Netherlands’ women’s team.—
Jacob Whitehead,
New York Times,
6 June 2025
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This kind of human moderator review of chats is pretty common in the gaming world and can even apply to voice recordings made by various smart home assistants.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
5 June 2025
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Gonzalez said his home run Friday, his second of the season, included a hunting trip.—
John Maffei,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 June 2025
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The electric muscle car was gaining as much as a mile-per-hour a second, as depicted in the video above.—
Charles Singh,
USA Today,
6 June 2025
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Separately, attorneys for the families of victims of the shootings at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown in 2012 filed a civil lawsuit under a different provision of the law concerning unfair trade practices.—
Christopher Keating,
Hartford Courant,
31 May 2025
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If any inmates were denied parole because of the faulty tests, they could be owed a new hearing before the parole board, said attorneys representing inmates affected by the defective drug tests.—
Salvador Hernandez,
Los Angeles Times,
31 May 2025
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Aziza is, in many ways, the audience surrogate, which requires Young to really be present with her venom-spewing costars as new lies and revelations are unfurled.—
Patrick Ryan,
USA Today,
3 June 2025
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Moreover, data tokenization or de-identification allows sensitive information (like PII or health records) to be replaced with non-sensitive surrogates, reducing risk without compromising analytics.—
Shinoy Vengaramkode Bhaskaran,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2025
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Hormonal factors Hormonal fluctuations as part of menstrual cycles, pregnancy, and perimenopause can impact emotional regulation, sometimes significantly, according to Dr. Potter.—
Melissa Willets,
Parents,
3 June 2025
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More customer satisfaction studies Four other studies by J.D. Power marketing research firm also tracked overall customer satisfaction for banking and credit card digital offerings based on four factors: navigation; speed; visual appeal; and information/content.—
Catherine Muccigrosso,
Charlotte Observer,
3 June 2025
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In Lebanon, the 2023–24 Israel–Hezbollah war devastated Iran's top proxy.—
Clare Morell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 May 2025
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Unreliable Web data-gathering solutions and questionably sourced proxies will lead to operational failures and reputational damage.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2025
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Any deputies who fired their weapon will be placed on administrative assignment pending the outcome of the investigation.—
David Fleshler,
Sun Sentinel,
1 June 2025
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The White House deputy press secretary, Harrison Fields, said the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is creating media to support a particular political party on the taxpayers' dime.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
1 June 2025
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Then in September, a Secret Service agent spotted the muzzle of a rifle sticking out of a fence in bushes at Trump's West Palm Beach golf club while scouting the course ahead of Trump.—
Khaleda Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 June 2025
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At Trump’s West Palm Beach, Fla., golf course on Sept. 15, a Secret Service agent scoping out the area one or two holes ahead of him saw the muzzle of an AK-47-style weapon pointing out of the tree line on the perimeter of the course.—
Andrew J. Campa,
Los Angeles Times,
4 June 2025
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“Reliever.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reliever. Accessed 14 Jun. 2025.
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