starter
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He lifted Marlins starter Eury Pérez’s fastball at a 39-degree launch angle, according to Statcast, 108.2 mph off the bat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
Friday night’s game showed that Guess might be ready to be the starter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
Brugge were poor and George Hemmings, Villa's first Champions League/European Cup teenage starter in 43 years, could have had at least one.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
First-time home buyers face prices for starter homes that their incomes cannot cover.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
The first dinner Harrison cooked was a savory fish, with the beet salad as a starter.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Here, four recent job starters share their tips on what helped them have a smooth transition and survive the first few days.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
For starters, you no longer will have to rack your brain trying to remember if your chat about next quarter’s sales strategy took place in ChatGPT or Gemini or Claude.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
With Blake Snell and Tyler Glasnow having returned strong from injuries, they have four starters who easily can dominate a series.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
Laying out his call, Flight told clients in a note published on Tuesday that, for starters, “incremental central bank credibility concerns are overstated.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
But here, for starters, is Quintilian: “The whole art of oratory, as the most and greatest writers have taught, consists of five parts: invention, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery.”
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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