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field

[feeld] / fild /




VERB
catch a hit or thrown object
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They will select one from the field and have it delivered the same day.

From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026

The electric field accelerated the electrons and caused some of them to switch from one energy band to another, crossing the intervening gap through a quantum mechanical transition.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2026

What happens when AI makes it harder to find an entry-level job in your field?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026

The Monarchs went three-and-out on their first drive, and a very short pooch-punt from freshman quarterback Paytyn Guess gave the Huskies great field position.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2026

Charlie was bright as a button because his hand kept him out of the field.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

Operations were allowed to continue at the three contested North Sea fields while the energy ministry appealed the rulings.

From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2026

The team also incorporated a second metallic layer designed to counteract unwanted electric fields.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 13, 2026

He and his wife pull in $20,000 a year—firmly middle class in India—but he wanted his four sons out of the fields.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

“Maybe legal fields are going to become less attractive and more fields that will open up that we haven’t even thought about. That is something to think hard about.”

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 12, 2026

Mama says your daddy told her it was all right, that we’d be fine since we’d been farming the same fields in Chemung County since the Maple Tree was a baby.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

At OpenAI, Sam Altman fielded employee questions about the backlash, and senior leaders debated whether to lower next year’s capacity targets, The Wall Street Journal reports.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

Nee’s private-equity practice in Boston was one of the Weil’s most lucrative and she fielded offers from several rivals, including Simpson Thacher, as well as Ropes & Gray, according to people familiar with the matter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 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

Yuko fielded all the calls, telling them that Kathy was doing everything she could, everything humanly possible.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers

While the former Theranos CEO is serving time in a Texas federal prison, Evans is active on X and fielding burning questions inspired by the documentary.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

Chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude are fielding more and more of the questions that once poured into search engines.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026

Since Stevens’ announcement that she was rescinding her endorsement of Abdul El-Sayed and backing Republican Mike Rogers for Senate, Coleman-Burns has been fielding calls from other Black women voters.

From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2026

Sunday's vote involves 18 lists but only seven of them are fielding the full 250 candidates.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

Lacey had been fielding dozens of e-mails—none with real information—from the flyers her cousin had put in record stores in New York.

From "Paper Towns" by John Green


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