lifter

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I got one of my favourite wickets in my career, a lifter to Faf Du Plessis on the fourth evening, just as he was providing significant rearguard.

From BBC • Dec. 23, 2024

Of the four chambers, the left ventricle is the heavy lifter, as its thick, cone-shaped musculature is built for pumping blood through the entire body.

From Science Daily • Dec. 8, 2023

The International Powerlifting Federation has tightened its transgender policy after a 40-year-old male-born lifter broke multiple women’s records at a meet this month in Canada.

From Washington Times • Aug. 22, 2023

During his time as a weight lifter, he worked at bag and paper companies and as a manager at Great Universal Stores, a retail and mail order catalog company.

From New York Times • Jun. 28, 2023

Inside were the photos I knew so well: the invisible boy, the levitating girl, the boulder lifter, the man with a face painted on the back of his head.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs