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field

[feeld] / fild /




VERB
catch a hit or thrown object
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Because the Moon lacks a thick atmosphere and a global magnetic field, these particles strike its surface directly.

From Science Daily Jul. 21, 2026

Recent weakness among chip stocks has been fueled by fears that China’s newest artificial-intelligence players could disrupt the field.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 2026

That’s according to MIT finance professor Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, an expert in the M&A field.

From MarketWatch Jul. 21, 2026

He was booed by the crowd during the national anthems and again when he took the field with Infantino after the game for the awards ceremony.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 20, 2026

I called out to them and the muffled sound of their “Hello” came back across the field.

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

In the last three years, California, Arizona and Nevada have turned to voluntary water cutbacks and federal payments to farmers who agree to leave fields dry part of the year.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

Hydration breaks, all right—from battlefields to soccer fields.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 19, 2026

Their mission is not to explore but to extract what's left in known fields.

From BBC Jul. 19, 2026

Cyclosporiasis comes from food that’s gotten contaminated with human feces while being washed in fields or processing plants.

From Slate Jul. 17, 2026

In front of our eyes, the bubbling water turned dark and the same dreadful smell from the fields was on us.

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

Her agency has fielded all sorts of parenting requests: providing equestrian nannies who travel to tournaments, baby chefs to prepare culturally specific purées for infants, personal stylists for the children.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 18, 2026

Supreme Court Justices Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett testified before Congress Tuesday, where they fielded questions about security threats, the court’s ethics code and the rise of the “shadow docket.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 14, 2026

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

In the same meeting, the BBC bosses also fielded questions about other topics including long-running attempts to recover £200,000 from disgraced former news presenter Huw Edwards.

From BBC Jul. 8, 2026

He fielded phone calls, sat for daily briefings, and was consulting with a skeleton staff of advisers, aides, and speechwriters who were all staying at a hotel close by.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

Adding spice, it had tried—and failed—to block Peterhouse from fielding elite recruits, for which the college has become an unlikely magnet.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 19, 2026

In order to comply with La Liga’s strict limits on fielding players from outside the European Union, club president Joan Laporta had worked to secure Spanish passports for both Leo and his father, Jorge.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 18, 2026

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

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

From BBC Jul. 3, 2026

Her fielding couldn’t have been worse, but we were piling up too many runs to take serious notice of it.

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger




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