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Recent Examples of bull pen
Even though the Red Sox had Thursday off after Wednesday’s unpleasant bullpen loss at Fenway the night before, Tolle’s short start was suboptimal.
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Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 7 Sep. 2025
With Seymour tossing a career-high five innings, Melvin limited his bullpen usage to Matt Gage and Tristan Beck, the latter of whom recorded a rare three-inning save.
—Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 6 Sep. 2025
However, the bullpen failed to maintain the lead as the offense fell flat.
—Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 31 Aug. 2025
In the months leading up to opening day, the ballpark was upgraded with a new scoreboard, premium club sections and renovations to the clubhouses, dugouts and bullpens.
—Sacbee.com, 29 Aug. 2025
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Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 7 Sep. 2025
With Seymour tossing a career-high five innings, Melvin limited his bullpen usage to Matt Gage and Tristan Beck, the latter of whom recorded a rare three-inning save.
—Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 6 Sep. 2025
However, the bullpen failed to maintain the lead as the offense fell flat.
—Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 31 Aug. 2025
In the months leading up to opening day, the ballpark was upgraded with a new scoreboard, premium club sections and renovations to the clubhouses, dugouts and bullpens.
—Sacbee.com, 29 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bull pen
Noun
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There's substantial use of titanium and carbon fiber components in places like the exhaust end cap, air intakes, seat tailpiece, mudguards, and tank covers.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
17 Sep. 2025
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My father was a thirty-two-year-old tank commander who had crossed to occupied France shortly after D-Day, fought in the savage battle for Caen and then on through northern France.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Equipment includes cages, outdoor runs, treadmills, and a microchipping kit.—
Brandon Kochkodin,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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These materials will be used to build the powerful magnets that form a magnetic cage to confine plasma heated to temperatures exceeding 150 million degrees Celsius (302 million degrees Fahrenheit).—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Overall, aspirin makes the environment more challenging for cancer to get a foothold in, particularly for people with the genetic makeup predisposed to dysregulated cell function, where cancer cell growth and division is more likely.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
18 Sep. 2025
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By keeping parental bonds alive, the charity hopes to break a frequent pattern of an adult’s prison time leaving a child adrift and more likely to be on track for their own path toward a cell.—
Douglas Hanks,
Miami Herald,
18 Sep. 2025
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Use a mini chalkboard and a chalk pen to create small labels.—
Savanna Bous,
Better Homes & Gardens,
17 Sep. 2025
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Just be sure to periodically check if your pens still work.—
Hallie Milstein,
Southern Living,
17 Sep. 2025
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North Little Rock police officer Tommy Norman, whose social media presence attracted millions of followers before his Saturday arrest on a domestic battery count, was released from jail Monday morning after posting a $350 bond, court records showed.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
15 Sep. 2025
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Tahoe is obviously getting more aggressive with icon-shape enforcement, up to and including automatically manipulating them and sentencing them to icon jail.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
15 Sep. 2025
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Arcángela and Serafina remain in the women’s penitentiary, continuing to operate illicit businesses and accumulating wealth, but without hope of freedom.—
Isabella Wandermurem,
Time,
10 Sep. 2025
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Prisoners look out of their cell at maximum security penitentiary CECOT (Center for the Compulsory Housing of Terrorism) on April 4 in Tecoluca, San Vicente, El Salvador.—
Dan Gooding,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Pecan chicken salad and walnut chicken salad made the prior day and in the walk-in cooler also weren’t cool enough.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
15 Sep. 2025
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Malcolm was right there waiting for me out by the pool, with three bottles of champagne in a party cooler.—
T. Coraghessan Boyle,
New Yorker,
14 Sep. 2025
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Scott was convicted of murder and sent to prison.—
Tony Saavedra,
Oc Register,
17 Sep. 2025
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Barr was attorney general when Epstein was found dead in his prison cell in 2019, a death that was later deemed a suicide.—
Lauren Green,
The Washington Examiner,
17 Sep. 2025
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“Bull pen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bull%20pen. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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