squeeze play

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Recent Examples of squeeze play But leadoff hitter Austin Martin failed to get down a bunt on a safety squeeze play. John Shipley, Twin Cities, 15 Aug. 2025 San Francisco executed a squeeze play — Brett Wisely bunting, Ramos scoring. Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 7 May 2025 Little Margin for Error Image Near the end of his shift, the controller handling both helicopters and commercial jets tried to pull off a complicated, and potentially risky, maneuver called a squeeze play. Kate Kelly, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2025 Laureano, the automatic runner in the 10th, got caught in a rundown on a squeeze play and some words were exchanged after a collision involving outfielder Francisco Alvarez. Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 26 July 2024 See All Example Sentences for squeeze play
Recent Examples of Synonyms for squeeze play
Noun
  • There’s no need to use a caulking gun to apply it, just remove the cap and squeeze.
    Christopher Murray may earn a commission if you buy through our referral links. This content was created by a team that works independently from the Fox newsroom., FOXNews.com, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The data, released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) Wednesday, shows that the financial squeeze on consumers and businesses remains high, but there are hopes this could be the peak.
    Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • With increasing space traffic from various nations and private companies, keeping tabs on potential collisions and threats becomes crucial.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
  • His two Mann Act convictions had carried the threat of a combined maximum of 20 years in prison.
    Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 27 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The result came after Milei’s party suffered a landslide defeat to the Peronist opposition in a September local vote in the Buenos Aires province, an outcome that sparked a selloff of the peso amid investor fears over the president’s standing with voters.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Harrison expressed deep fears that the White House could take an ax to CPB and public media more broadly.
    David Folkenflik, NPR, 27 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • That is gladiators without swords.
    Bryan West, USA Today, 28 Oct. 2025
  • As Polarity worked to get him to a doctor and treat his wounds following a battle with Cipher on school grounds in episode seven, Black Noir (Nathan Mitchell) — from The Boys’ The Seven — landed on top of Polarity’s vehicle and drove a sword through its roof — and through Doug.
    Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Political action committees have circulated push polls falsely suggesting Mamdani intends to make halal mandatory, and attack ads have darkened and elongated his beard to evoke the visual coding of menace.
    Faisal Kutty, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Kayshon Boutte remains a menace deep.
    Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 28 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • With its investments in AI infrastructure and obvious strengths on the power front, this is a country that is building out data centers and positioning itself as a hub for AI, entertainment, sports, finance, high-tech manufacturing and more.
    Diane Brady, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Castelion claims that its mission is rooted in the belief that freedom must be actively protected – through technological strength, strategic clarity, and national resolve.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 27 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • As Ali and her brother hid under a blanket, violence exploded around them.
    Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Jackson imagined the Shire as idyllic beyond measure — cozy cottages dug into the landscape's gentle green slopes, totally free of the conflict and violence that the saga's Hobbit quartet eventually learn lie just beyond its borders.
    Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In the 1980s and ’90s, Colombia’s cocaine cartels controlled entire regions through intimidation, corruption and fear tactics that are nearly identical to what’s now unfolding in parts of Mexico.
    Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Immigrant and Latino communities — already under siege from ICE — now face not just intimidation, but real, fatal consequences.
    Bulmaro Vicente, Oc Register, 26 Oct. 2025

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