relay
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They’ve also struck out three times more often than they’ve walked and are batting .215 against the relay team of 10 pitchers Atlanta has used.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026
In other cases, he said, Navatek’s lobbyists would relay a request from an intermediary for a specific dollar amount.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
"This is called back-energy transfer: it means that the energy that would have been emitted by the erbium ions as green light instead gets bounced back to the ytterbium relay and never reaches the surface."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
Justice Department said several companies used crypto exchange Binance to relay payments for black-market Iranian oil from Chinese buyers, as part of a scheme to finance Iran’s military in violation of sanctions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Maybe I’m doing something wrong, but it doesn’t seem like any of the relay girls have any interest in hanging out with me.
From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée
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The evening session concluded with Great Britain winning a pair of gold medals in the men's and women's 4x100m relays.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
Horse relays once moved a message approximately 155 miles a day at most.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
"We found that activating this pathway excites the part of the spinal cord that relays touch and pain to the brain, causing touch to now be perceived as pain as well," said Ball.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 27, 2026
After record-setting performances in the 4x100 relays last weekend at the Arcadia Invitational, the Servite and Rosary relay teams will try to do it again on Saturday at the Mt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2026
Two relays of hounds, squealing most sore — the third was faint with fatigue.
From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz
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Several pitches for World Cup matches are being played in stadiums that usually have artificial surfaces but which have been relaid with grass.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026
The field has been belatedly relaid because there were concerts staged at the stadium last weekend.
From Seattle Times ● May 27, 2022
Saints boss Ralph Hasenhuttl named a strong side for what was Newport's first home game of the campaign, with their notorious playing surface having been relaid over the summer, and the pristine surface suited Saints.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2021
It was, he pointed out, always going to be relaid after several postponements had contributed to the club’s descent to the bottom of League One and hindered their commitment to positive, attractive football.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 18, 2018
This has now been relaid farther north, and out of the way of any future floods.
From ASCE 1193: The Water-Works and Sewerage of Monterrey, N. L., Mexico The 4th article from the June, 1911, Volume LXXII, Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Paper No. 1193, Feb. 1, 1911. by George Robert Graham Conway
Slaughter relayed what Barry’s group has harped on all week.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026
Oimakhmadov then relayed the funds on to other IRGC-connected wallets, the report said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
In an interview with David Rosenberg of Rosenberg Research, Gundlach relayed the story of a 100-year-old silver maple at his house in Buffalo, N.Y., that lost a giant limb, nearly hitting the chimney.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
Police also share information with the local City Watch scheme and details about known suspects can be relayed on a radio system to shops.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
Piper relayed the vision from her knife about the SUVs racing north.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
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Martin, Tennessee, is a small, out-of-the-way town that is ultimately best explained to strangers by relaying its travel time from Memphis.
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2026
"There's a commander within them -- BC6 -- that leads them in relaying signals to the downstream target."
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
In March, several weeks into the war, Islamabad confirmed it was relaying messages back and forth between Tehran and Washington.
From Barron's ● Jun. 16, 2026
U.S. citizen Thomas Pauken II pleaded guilty to acting as an unregistered Chinese agent, having received at least $100,000 for recruiting informants, providing communication devices, and relaying intelligence to handlers in China.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
So he kept the men and sleds and boats close together, relaying forward one agonizing quarter mile at a time.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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