bate

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Al alinearlo como titular, también se eliminan las complicaciones que supondría buscarle tiempo para calentar si su turno al bate llegara en la entrada anterior, algo que podría haberle dificultado cerrar el partido.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2025

He’ll bray, he’ll bate, he’ll prate, he’ll Berate, and he’ll inveigh, Then once we’ve been diverted, he’ll cause a new melee.

From Washington Post • Dec. 13, 2018

Please roll your drums, bate your breaths and hook your tenters—these are the 2017-’18 PGA Tour “Mid-Season” Awards.

From Golf Digest • Jul. 5, 2018

As “Mr Dooley,” the comic, fictional creation of Finley Peter Dunne, wryly observed: “There’s wan thing about th’ Irish iv this town…they give picnics that does bate all.

From Time • Mar. 17, 2015

If a falcon is hooded she will not bate, that is, she won’t fly off your fist and hang head down by her jesses, beating her wings and hurting herself.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George