second string

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Uncapped wicketkeeper-batsman Khawaja Nafay is also included in the squad after his impressive show with Pakistan's second string team in the last two years.

From Barron's • Dec. 28, 2025

“I basically played second string at ‘SC,” Ardell said.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 3, 2025

But scientists found niobium difficult to engineer as a core qubit component, and so it was relegated to the second string on Team Superconducting Qubit.

From Science Daily • Feb. 26, 2024

Philadelphia is the home city of co-owner Rob McElhenney who was at Dignity Health Sports Park to see Wrexham beat a Galaxy second string side.

From BBC • Jul. 23, 2023

After the training camp, his coach said that he was second string and that when he starts learning the system, he will be first string.

From "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky