bats (around)

present tense third-person singular of bat (around)

Example Sentences

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Verb
  • China’s negotiating style has consistently been slow, methodical, and relentless in seeking better terms, as evidenced by talks over the PoS-2 stretching for over a decade.
    Ariel Cohen, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The news comes a day after Iranian diplomats and diplomats from England, Italy, and Germany met to explore beginning new talks over limiting Iran’s uranium enrichment.
    Annabella Rosciglione, The Washington Examiner, 27 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • In fact, given the scarcity of Black programming in the current television landscape—Issa Rae’s new documentary series Seen & Heard discusses this reality in depth—the world of women’s basketball has been one of the few spaces where the bright lights consistently shine on Black women and girls.
    Timeka Tounsel, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Now Kennedy himself is driving much of what the committee discusses, including today’s deliberations on hepatitis B and MMRV, Demetre Daskalakis, the former director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, told us.
    Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • As Washington debates the future of the space agency, the Perseverance team can only go about its business, sending its rover this way and that, to sniff out clues to Mars’s ancient past.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 11 Sep. 2025
  • During such events, Kirk debates students and others about myriad of topics, some of them controversial.
    Christopher Cann, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Cincoro is labeled as being 100 percent agave, however, which the lawsuit disputes.
    Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 5 Sep. 2025
  • After the FanDuel announcement, the court found that SEPTA's attempt to implement planned service cuts during Thursday's Eagles game was a violation of the August 29 court order, a claim that SEPTA disputes.
    Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The logic puzzles seemed tailor-made for someone like Morgan, a high-IQ intellectual who consults with the police and notices things others miss.
    Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The team consults the Urban Dictionary for meanings of less common terms and reviews an internal document of objectionable configurations.
    Angele Latham, The Tennessean, 3 Sep. 2025
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“Bats (around).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bats%20%28around%29. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.

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