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field

[feeld] / fild /




VERB
catch a hit or thrown object
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On the next at-bat, Ohtani drove in Teoscar Hernández from third on a sacrifice fly to center field.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 25, 2026

The former investment banker was hired two months ago by Cursor, a startup that Elon Musk’s SpaceX is buying for $60 billion, to be a field chief technology officer.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 25, 2026

On the football field, Wallace just wants one thing for his senior season.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 25, 2026

She opened up the first class by holding up the book and declaring, “This is what the field of sociology is about.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 25, 2026

They were too close to the Mallons’ field.

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

Wiltshire farmer David Lemon showed us his 3,000-acre farm, where hare coursers have previously torn up the fields with miles of tyre tracks.

From BBC Jul. 25, 2026

Chevron owns a 15% share in the pipeline—the Caspian Pipeline Consortium, or CPC—which carries crude from three giant oil-and-gas fields across the mountainous terrain of Kazakhstan into Russia and out to the Black Sea.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 25, 2026

But being a member of Congress is a job, and in few other fields do we judge someone qualified just because they’re related to someone who was.

From Slate Jul. 24, 2026

Huawei said Wednesday that its AI system "Celia" had shown "comprehensive problem-solving capabilities" across several mathematical fields.

From Barron's Jul. 23, 2026

A hawk circles above, riding on the thermals, searching for mice tunneling through the fields.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

The talent pool there is so deep, France probably could have fielded a B team in this World Cup and made it to the quarterfinals.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 13, 2026

Tim Cook was under pressure from the White House last summer when he fielded an unusual request.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 11, 2026

And while Dupont and Bielle-Biarrey did not travel to Christchurch, France head coach Fabien Galthie fielded a strong team that included star fly-half Jalibert and record try scorer Penaud.

From BBC Jul. 4, 2026

England fielded well, and the work of Curran and Jacks between the 15th and 19th overs was vital.

From BBC Jul. 4, 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

In the labyrinthine alleyways of Cairo's Garbage City, recycling specialist Peter Romany finds himself fielding calls from factories scrambling for plastic to plug supply shortfalls caused by the Iran war.

From Barron's Jul. 18, 2026

Storage Sale: Across Silicon Valley, startup founders are enjoying a wave of computing credits and fielding competing offers from AI-model makers racing to land new enterprise customers.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 12, 2026

A sparkly disco jacket owned by the wife of the fielding coach…

From BBC Jul. 3, 2026

For much of Muncy’s baseball life he played on the right side of the infield, fielding pull-side contact from left-handed hitters and opposite-field contact from right-handed hitters.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 3, 2026

Soon after opening the store O’Connor found himself fielding so many questions from curious customers that he tried his hand at writing a column.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker




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