ballpark
Example Sentences
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Surveillance software sprouted in every cranny of the ballpark, first in service of providing more data for teams and front offices to pore over, then as fuel for ever more esoteric betting propositions.
From Salon • Apr. 13, 2026
"So far as I can say, it is old, sub-fossilised, and probably Pleistocene - it's a massive ballpark, but most likely somewhere between 100,000 and half a million years old."
From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026
A. “When the war ends” is a key qualifier—and one nobody knows how to ballpark right now.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
You could fit them in a minor-league ballpark with room for the hot dog vendors.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 26, 2026
If there’s one thing I know for sure, it’s that I don’t want to be in the same league as them—hell, I don’t even want to be in the same ballpark.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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