field day

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Recent Examples of field day Listen to this article Municipal Grant Park Stadium hosted its first event — an athletic field day for thousands of Chicago police officers — 100 years ago this week. Marianne Mather, Chicago Tribune, 6 Sep. 2024 Every summer, the University of Florida IFAS Extension and research faculty conduct a rice field day dedicated to showcasing their current research. Jehangir Bhadha, The Conversation, 8 Aug. 2024 Explore our new section The high-tech field day comes at a moment when Californians are strongly reconsidering their relationship with traditional herbicides and pesticides. Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2024 The year of momentum With tech being the only big play, momentum players are having a field day. Bob Pisani, CNBC, 11 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for field day 
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Noun
  • The crux of the drama is a single shot, lasting a full seven minutes, that begins at eye level with a modest outing for Anna and the priest, involves the presence of a child in hiding, spirals high to reveal Anna’s decisive response to Hansen’s demands, and follows her to a desperate escape.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2025
  • Her attire for the daytime outing featured a black base fabric with thin white pinstripes throughout.
    Julia Teti, WWD, 5 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Our revels are over when she’s called back on set in Nashville to continue filming Scarpetta, the Amazon TV adaptation of Patricia Cornwall’s bestselling novels about crime-solving forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta, with Jamie Lee Curtis playing her sister and Ariana DeBose as her niece.
    Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 5 Dec. 2024
  • Salem's focus on confronting a difficult history, teamed with clever marketing and the explosion of the holiday into a mainstream cultural force, has made Salem the country's go-to spot for Halloween revels.
    Mike Deehan, Axios, 28 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Today’s housing market mostly operates out in the open — in one place, buyers surfing Zillow or Redfin can see nearly every home listed for sale.
    Kate Talerico, The Mercury News, 3 Feb. 2025
  • But Musk is operating in the wide open, where everyone can see and judge for themselves the propriety of his place beside the president.
    Nolan Finley, Twin Cities, 31 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • On a lark, Murphy suggested an alternative: start a pro-basketball league.
    airmail.news, airmail.news, 31 Aug. 2024
  • Zoologists proposed splitting two species of sub-Saharan larks into seven, and three subspecies of soft-furred southeast Asian hedgehogs were elevated to the rank of species.
    Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 2 Mar. 2024
Noun
  • The 20-year-old made his first start against Leganes but did not play well, damaging his chances of starting the derby against Atletico.
    Mario Cortegana, The Athletic, 7 Feb. 2025
  • My derbies would be lined with forest green to remind me of the forests behind my dacha.
    Gary Shteyngart, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • His shakshuka takes the tomato-and-pepper mold and spins it into a gambol through fields of celery and coriander seeds, ground chipotles and sweet paprika.
    Scott Hocker, theweek, 26 Nov. 2024
  • In the winning first moments of the show, Mills gambols on as the Narrator, wielding a paint palette and, instead of a brush, a tuft of rainbow-colored gauze.
    Celia Wren, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2023
Noun
  • Running a gymkhana in the 600SL would be like asking Her Majesty to run a boot-camp obstacle course.
    Frank Markus, Car and Driver, 2 Jan. 2023
  • In the episode, Ken talks with editor Jake Lingeman about the newest gymkhana car, the Hoonifox, and his aspirations to film it in Miami with an '80s Miami Vice vibe.
    Maxwell B. Mortimer, Car and Driver, 14 May 2020
Noun
  • Broadus acknowledged feeling a bit nervous about how the players approached Saturday’s game against a Coppin State opponent that had only one victory in the conference but was redeemed by Morgan State’s 80-64 romp.
    Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 29 Jan. 2025
  • Lynn fired back at a wild remark made by ESPN NFL analyst Dominique Foxworth earlier in the season following Hurts’ four total touchdowns in a 55-23 romp over the Washington Commanders.
    Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 27 Jan. 2025

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