bunt

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Recent Examples of bunt Roger Clemens first came off the bench for the Astros (to bunt as a pinch hitter) and then out of the bullpen (for the first time in 21 years) to toss the final three scoreless innings for Houston. Tim Britton, New York Times, 30 May 2025 Got the sign, good pitch to bunt, just missed under it. John Romano, The Orlando Sentinel, 20 May 2025 Last season, Callihan injured his finger trying to bunt off a left-handed pitcher. C. Trent Rosecrans, The Athletic, 24 Feb. 2025 Peers double-faulted for *2-1 to the Americans, before Ram double-faulted right back for 2-2, and a miscommunication on positioning left a huge gap through the middle that the Australians exploited, before Krajicek bunted a return long to go *4-2 down at the changeover. James Hansen, The Athletic, 3 Aug. 2024 See All Example Sentences for bunt
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bunt
Verb
  • Nineteen seconds later, her pass from below the basket went out to Collier, who calmly stroked another trey for a 12-point cushion.
    Mike Cook, Twin Cities, 15 July 2025
  • In the back booth of his local dive bar, Alex G strokes his beard and gazes mistily to his left, where a second bar television is playing the same game show but with a slimy purplish-green cast to the screen.
    Anna Gaca, Pitchfork, 14 July 2025
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  • With Iran's military battered from an intense 12-day war with Israel that also involved direct U.S. intervention, China is emerging as top candidate to provide advanced weaponry that could help Tehran reestablish deterrence as tensions continue to simmer across the Middle East.
    Tom O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 July 2025
  • Disneyland could finally overtake Florida’s Magic Kingdom as the top theme in the world if new attendance figures announced by Disney CEO Bob Iger push the Anaheim theme park past the larger rival that was battered by hurricanes in 2024.
    Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 18 July 2025
Verb
  • The perfumes and hand creams are manufactured in the United States, tapping into some of the relationships Christina built in the industry.
    Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 July 2025
  • Clipse tapped Kendrick Lamar, Nas, Stove God Cooks, and more for their lyrical exhibition.
    Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 15 July 2025
Verb
  • Whether due to devious marketing misdirection or just the viewer's first-time-watch naïveté, these flicks swerve in unexpected directions by snuffing out one of their prominent characters before the first or second act is even through.
    James Mercadante, EW.com, 23 July 2025
  • Johan Vásquez flicked the restart across the goal mouth and Álvarez burst past the defense, redirecting the ball from three yards just inside Matt Freese’s far post.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2025
Verb
  • So, when his dad received a job offer in another state, the teen didn’t hesitate to push for the move.
    Ashley Vega, People.com, 26 July 2025
  • That deadline was pushed back from earlier this month.
    Maria Aspan, NPR, 26 July 2025
Verb
  • He and Eric Griffin (12 points) were called for a double-technical for shoving each other.
    Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 24 July 2025
  • Tapping the area where these windows have been shoved to brings them back to the foreground, while performing the Home action again minimizes all of them.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 24 July 2025
Verb
  • Likely to jab at the president as a public fallout between the two over Trump’s spending bill boiled over.
    Antonio Pequeño IV, Forbes.com, 24 July 2025
  • The man jabbed the machete fully into his car toward his face.
    Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 22 July 2025
Verb
  • The front office publicly butted heads with franchise slugger Rafael Devers and then opted to trade him away to the San Francisco Giants, which seemed to save a white flag on their near-term future.
    Peter Chawaga, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 July 2025
  • Illinois lawmakers have so far achieved mixed results in efforts to regulate the burgeoning technology of artificial intelligence, a task that butts up against moves by the Trump administration to eliminate restrictions on AI.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 7 July 2025

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“Bunt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bunt. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.

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