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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
Noun
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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
Noun
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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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Adding to the misery was the bleak announcement before Saturday’s game when Venable revealed outfielder Austin Slater had torn the meniscus in his right knee Friday while stretching.—
Paul Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
13 Apr. 2025
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The seasonal beach community off South Carolina is usually a place to work on your swing, but here looked more like Davos for the owners box crowd.—
Matt Donnelly,
Variety,
11 Apr. 2025
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Before the jackets are issued, the trophies are inscribed and the $20 million purse is disbursed, PGA fans can catch a leisurely warm-up swing for this weekend’s Masters.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
9 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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The Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon TV series originated a couple of years ago when Sony regained the rights to the books through a first-look deal with Vertigo and tapped Ning to adapt it as part of an overall deal.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
10 Apr. 2025
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The ninth-place team in each conference hosts the 10th-place team in the first play-in game before the winner of that contest goes on the road to take on the loser of the play-in game between the seventh-place team and eighth-place team for the right to the conference’s No. 8 playoff seed.—
Anthony Chiang,
Miami Herald,
10 Apr. 2025
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Martinez then returns the pass to Barella with Augusto pushing on out wide on Inter’s left to provide another passing option.—
Ahmed Walid,
New York Times,
9 Apr. 2025
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Winds were blowing 19 mph from left to right with a first-pitch temperature of 43 degrees.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
9 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 24 Apr. 2025.
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