- present tense form of ball (3rd person singular).
balls
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But Mitchell spat on three straight balls to get to a full count.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
You know, just hitting some tennis balls and having a taco occasionally, just floating through life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
Batted balls with that profile resulted in an eye-popping .538 batting average and 1.207 slugging percentage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
He scored runs with only one of those shots - when he had 176 runs to his name and had faced 368 balls.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
She smelled several bars of soap, sidestepped a display overflowing with bouncing balls, and examined some dangling spider plants before she found the shelf with cornmeal.
From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn
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