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on the ball

ADJECTIVE

alert

Synonyms

WEAK

active all ears attentive bright cagey careful clever good hands heads up intelligent lively observant on guard on one's toes on the job on the lookout on the stick perceptive quick ready sharp spirited vigilant watchful wise with it

ADVERB

paying attention

Synonyms

WEAK

alert alive attentive awake on one's toes on the job on top of ready sharp vital wide-awake with it

Example Sentences

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It was, he says, her “composure on the ball, and the way she saw time and space with her passing, that first made my heart cleave.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

How the Spurs’ star destroys NBA offenses without laying a finger on the ball.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

Carragher says Benitez told Owen, who in 2001 had won the Ballon d'Or, he needed to learn to "turn on the ball quicker".

From BBC • May 12, 2026

I think they want to get on the ball, and look good.

From BBC • May 11, 2026

He braced himself for an instant and I got a fingertip on the ball.

From "Slam!" by Walter Dean Myers

on the ball

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