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Recent Examples of bunt
Roger Clemens first came off the bench for the Astros (to bunt as a pinch hitter) and then out of the bullpen (for the first time in 21 years) to toss the final three scoreless innings for Houston.
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Tim Britton, New York Times, 30 May 2025
Got the sign, good pitch to bunt, just missed under it.
—John Romano, The Orlando Sentinel, 20 May 2025
Last season, Callihan injured his finger trying to bunt off a left-handed pitcher.
—C. Trent Rosecrans, The Athletic, 24 Feb. 2025
Peers double-faulted for *2-1 to the Americans, before Ram double-faulted right back for 2-2, and a miscommunication on positioning left a huge gap through the middle that the Australians exploited, before Krajicek bunted a return long to go *4-2 down at the changeover.
—James Hansen, The Athletic, 3 Aug. 2024
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Tim Britton, New York Times, 30 May 2025
Got the sign, good pitch to bunt, just missed under it.
—John Romano, The Orlando Sentinel, 20 May 2025
Last season, Callihan injured his finger trying to bunt off a left-handed pitcher.
—C. Trent Rosecrans, The Athletic, 24 Feb. 2025
Peers double-faulted for *2-1 to the Americans, before Ram double-faulted right back for 2-2, and a miscommunication on positioning left a huge gap through the middle that the Australians exploited, before Krajicek bunted a return long to go *4-2 down at the changeover.
—James Hansen, The Athletic, 3 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bunt
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The Marlins jumped out to a quick lead in the first inning Tuesday when Otto Lopez stroked a two-out single and scored on a throwing error after Ramírez’s infield single.—
Steve Gorten,
Miami Herald,
23 July 2025
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Nineteen seconds later, her pass from below the basket went out to Collier, who calmly stroked another trey for a 12-point cushion.—
Mike Cook,
Twin Cities,
15 July 2025
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It had been battered by drought, underinvestment and absentee ownership.—
Ascend Agency,
New York Daily News,
31 July 2025
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In recent days, intense rainstorms have battered much of northern China – a densely populated part of the country home to massive metropolises as well as agricultural heartlands.—
Nectar Gan,
CNN Money,
28 July 2025
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That's because several amendments were filed by some House Republicans that would have tapped into the lottery's budget to fund other projects.—
John C. Moritz,
Austin American Statesman,
30 July 2025
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According to Sharon Berger, RN, IBCLC, labor and delivery nurse and lactation consultant at Our Milk House, this study shows that allowing newborns to tap into their instincts and reflexes helps set them up for breastfeeding success.—
Wendy Wisner,
Parents,
29 July 2025
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Whether due to devious marketing misdirection or just the viewer's first-time-watch naïveté, these flicks swerve in unexpected directions by snuffing out one of their prominent characters before the first or second act is even through.—
James Mercadante,
EW.com,
23 July 2025
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Johan Vásquez flicked the restart across the goal mouth and Álvarez burst past the defense, redirecting the ball from three yards just inside Matt Freese’s far post.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
7 July 2025
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That deadline was pushed back from earlier this month.—
Maria Aspan,
NPR,
26 July 2025
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Republicans argued that funding for these programs was a waste of taxpayer dollars and have accused the networks of pushing left-leaning programming.—
Andrew Stanton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 July 2025
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He and Eric Griffin (12 points) were called for a double-technical for shoving each other.—
Gary Bedore,
Kansas City Star,
24 July 2025
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Tapping the area where these windows have been shoved to brings them back to the foreground, while performing the Home action again minimizes all of them.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
24 July 2025
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Likely to jab at the president as a public fallout between the two over Trump’s spending bill boiled over.—
Antonio Pequeño IV,
Forbes.com,
24 July 2025
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The man jabbed the machete fully into his car toward his face.—
Nick Ferraro,
Twin Cities,
22 July 2025
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The front office publicly butted heads with franchise slugger Rafael Devers and then opted to trade him away to the San Francisco Giants, which seemed to save a white flag on their near-term future.—
Peter Chawaga,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 July 2025
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Illinois lawmakers have so far achieved mixed results in efforts to regulate the burgeoning technology of artificial intelligence, a task that butts up against moves by the Trump administration to eliminate restrictions on AI.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
7 July 2025
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“Bunt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bunt. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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