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field

[feeld] / fild /




VERB
catch a hit or thrown object
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Enter McManus, who in two games has one field goal and eight extra points.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026

It didn’t wind up mattering when Ryland’s game-winning field goal sailed through the uprights in overtime.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

The planet has a thin atmosphere and no global magnetic field, leaving electronics exposed to radiation that can interfere with their operation.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026

Isak simply turned around to make his way back up the field in readiness for the goal-kick.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

Then I flew across the field so I could catch them before they turned down to our house.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff

The US-based energy giant struck a deal last month to take control of Papua LNG, which aims to tap into massive gas fields nestled in the forests of Papua New Guinea.

From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026

The department is in charge of maintaining green spaces, playing fields and senior centers in the city.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

Countries like Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Ethiopia face a high burden, driven by dense rural populations and high exposure in agricultural fields.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026

One of Chevron’s key areas of research is in advanced chemicals, which it uses to boost recovery of oil-and-gas molecules from its existing fields in places like the Permian, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

We climbed over the rail fence and walked out to the edge of our fields.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

Kalshi has belatedly fielded “responsible trading” tools, mostly modeled on the sportsbooks it decries as less responsible.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

Some of that is because the fire department now handles medical calls, which used to be fielded by a separate emergency center.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026

Lubin said he’s fielded numerous calls from clients who have asked for his take on Amendment 3.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

For more than 11 minutes of Saturday's pre-match news conference, Republic of Ireland manager Heimir Hallgrimsson fielded questions centred on Sunday's Nations League Group B3 'home' game against Israel in Serbia.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

The eighty-eight players in the First Canadian Open may have composed a stronger roster than had been fielded at the United States Open a few weeks earlier.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

Against a majorly depleted Michigan State team fielding a freshman third-stringer at quarterback — that also lost two more of its best players to injury in the first half?

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2026

For the first time in the ultra-Orthodox community, it is also fielding two female candidates.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

A few feet in front of me, Assemblyman Wright is dressed in all-white linens and Air Force 1s, fielding greetings from all angles.

From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2026

She had spent the previous months fielding calls from Russian military officials.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

“What kind of trouble?” she asked, fielding the ball and bouncing a hard grounder back at me.

From "Dead End in Norvelt" by Jack Gantos


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