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field

[feeld] / fild /




VERB
catch a hit or thrown object
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Regardless, with a field goal and a touchdown in the final six minutes of the first half, Buffalo evened the score and had new life heading to the locker room.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

“This was a personnel decision made at the Washington field office level alone based on our constant evaluation of mission needs.”

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

"The dog has to run up the field, picks up five sheep, and they're brought down to a set of gates," he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

When the two teams went into their locker rooms at halftime, officials made sure they left the field in stages, to avoid a fight in the tunnel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

Gaunt, hopeless cows stood unmilked in the field.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

The result: A profusion of Ph.D.s in fields with little practical application.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

With a $5-million state grant years ago, he built 5 miles of canals to route floodwaters to fields.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026

Chevron will scoop up two new oil fields and hopes to eventually more than double its output in the country to 600,000 barrels a day.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

"We think these kinds of magnetic fields were helping to move gas from the protoplanetary disk, in toward this central star, the sun," Borlina says.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 2026

Honking every foot of the way, he sailed on down over our fields and disappeared in the river bottoms.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

For the first time this season Wednesday, the Dodgers fielded the 10 men you might well see in Game 1 of the playoffs next week.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

At the advanced end of the spectrum, Russia reportedly fielded at least one model of a fully autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle in early 2025.

From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2026

The organization has fielded more than 1,000 frantic emails and coordinated more than 28,000 letters sent to members of Congress.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

In their victory at Ipswich on Friday night, Liverpool fielded three players, Alexander Isak, Bradley Barcola and Florian Wirtz, who each cost more than £100m.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026

My mom fielded a bunch of phone calls that I didn’t feel like answering, from teachers, guys from the team, Coach, and some parents.

From "Here to Stay" by Sara Farizan

With runners on first and second, Yamamoto had a chance to contribute on defense, fielding Dustin Harris’ comebacker bunt.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

I saw this first hand with his dissent towards a fitness fielding session in the build-up to the 2014 Sydney Test match, among others.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

Bunch is also credited with gathering private donations to pay for half the museum’s $540 million cost, with Congress fielding the rest.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

There are 85 high schools in LAUSD, with 69 fielding football programs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

The Colonel sat on the couch judging whether the poster was level and fielding my endless questions about Alaska.

From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green




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