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Recent Examples of first base
Both have played first base or have been a DH for the Rangers in 2025, and utility player Josh Smith has also filled in at first throughout the 2025 season.
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Alyssa Cooper, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 July 2025
Starter Hunter Dobbins, who had just returned from the injury list himself with a minor elbow strain in late June, jammed his right knee covering first base in the second inning and came up limping.
—Jen McCaffrey, New York Times, 12 July 2025
Adames followed suit with a two-run triple the following inning, and Lee beat out an infield single when Anthony Banda stumbled covering first base to tack on another in a five-run fifth that widened the Giants lead to 8-2.
—Evan Webeck, Mercury News, 12 July 2025
Senga, who missed the entirety of the 2024 season outside of a few innings with a shoulder injury and a calf strain, was on track for another All-Star appearance before he was injured trying to cover first base.
—Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 11 July 2025
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Alyssa Cooper, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 July 2025
Starter Hunter Dobbins, who had just returned from the injury list himself with a minor elbow strain in late June, jammed his right knee covering first base in the second inning and came up limping.
—Jen McCaffrey, New York Times, 12 July 2025
Adames followed suit with a two-run triple the following inning, and Lee beat out an infield single when Anthony Banda stumbled covering first base to tack on another in a five-run fifth that widened the Giants lead to 8-2.
—Evan Webeck, Mercury News, 12 July 2025
Senga, who missed the entirety of the 2024 season outside of a few innings with a shoulder injury and a calf strain, was on track for another All-Star appearance before he was injured trying to cover first base.
—Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 11 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for first base
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The East African nation, rich in coltan (a mineral vital to tech manufacturing), becomes ground zero for a confrontation between capitalist greed and collective consciousness.—
Okla Jones,
Essence,
14 July 2025
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Los Angeles, a host city for the 2026 World Cup, became ground zero for the clash between a welcoming global sporting event and immigration roundups.—
Minky Worden,
Forbes.com,
11 July 2025
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A number of potentially better reactor types have been stuck on drawing boards or at the experimental stage for decades.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
24 Mar. 2015
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Winter Park is back to the drawing board in charting a path forward for its former library, which sits within shouting distance of Park Avenue.—
Ryan Gillespie,
Orlando Sentinel,
9 Feb. 2023
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Recent flooding in Texas at the beginning of the month killed at least 130 people, New York and New Jersey has also just been hit by flash flooding, and the fourth tropical storm of the season is expected to hit the coast of Florida this week.—
Simmone Shah,
Time,
15 July 2025
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They are required at the beginning of 8th grade, and staff must collaborate with students and their families to create and review the plans annually.—
Jean Eddy,
Forbes.com,
15 July 2025
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Guardian Litigation Group’s Litigation-First Strategy Guardian Litigation Group offers a unique service: legal representation from day one, at no additional cost to clients seeking debt settlement services.—
Jason Phillips,
USA Today,
26 July 2025
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Meanwhile, India will gain tariff-free access on 99% of imports from day one of the agreement.—
Ganesh Rao,
CNBC,
25 July 2025
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Norm Hall/Getty Images The Red Sox have an ace in Garrett Crochet while Brayan Bello and Lucas Giolito turned their seasons around over their last six starts.—
Tim Crowley,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 July 2025
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That Morejón made it through so many stops and starts, improving his body and mind and his pitching arsenal along the way, is what has been gratifying to longtime members of the organization.—
Kevin Acee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 July 2025
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The focus should be on optimizing cloud expenditures, embracing automation selectively, prioritizing high-impact AI projects and embedding governance into AI initiatives from the outset.—
Motasem El Bawab,
Forbes.com,
18 July 2025
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What To Know Newsom had strongly opposed the federal move from the outset, filing a lawsuit to block the deployment.—
Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 July 2025
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Building modular ingestion systems with fallback strategies ensures resilience, while adjusting detection baselines during major events helps teams avoid overreaction.—
Dr. Chiranjiv Roy,
Forbes.com,
25 July 2025
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Between 2017 and 2024, the number of days with at least 2 inches of precipitation was 6% higher than the 1986-2016 average and 37% higher than what scientists refer to as the baseline period of 1901-1960.—
Caitlin Looby,
jsonline.com,
24 July 2025
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“First base.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/first%20base. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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