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Recent Examples of lefty
Marc Topkin,
The Orlando Sentinel,
21 June 2026
Nationals relievers Brad Lord and Clayton Beeter bridged the gap after lefty starter Andrew Alvarez departed after four innings.
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Kansas City Star,
16 June 2026
Gary Phillips,
New York Daily News,
29 June 2026
The veteran lefty has allowed multiple home runs in four of his appearances.
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Josh Shepardson,
Forbes.com,
29 June 2026
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Taylor Walls doubled off lefty starter Andrew Alvarez with two outs in the home third, and scored when Diaz followed with a double.
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Marc Topkin,
The Orlando Sentinel,
21 June 2026
Nationals relievers Brad Lord and Clayton Beeter bridged the gap after lefty starter Andrew Alvarez departed after four innings.
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Kansas City Star,
16 June 2026
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The lefty, who needed 37 pitches to get through the fourth due to Cabrera’s flub and three free passes, logged five innings, two runs (0 earned), four walks and six strikeouts over 96 pitches.
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Gary Phillips,
New York Daily News,
29 June 2026
The veteran lefty has allowed multiple home runs in four of his appearances.
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Josh Shepardson,
Forbes.com,
29 June 2026
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Given modern advances, many organizations are turning towards auto-triaging by AI services and other digital tools to help ease the burden for physicians.
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One non-negotiable of the modern footballer is good coffee.
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Raman is more likely than Bass to pick up the voters who chose community organizer Rae Huang, a leftist who, like Raman, is a DSA member.
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In New York, an inspiring young leftist competed against a boorish, but experienced, former governor to replace a corrupt mayor.
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Dubbed Camp Meeker Cabin, the project strips mountain living back to its quieter essentials, while still embracing contemporary environmental design.
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The architecture is intentionally clean and contemporary, understated but elegant.
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My general experience with campaigns is that winning candidates are almost always those who attack their opponents remorselessly and relentlessly — those who convince the voters that the other guy is a racist, a pinko, a warmonger, a coward, a crook, a greedy capitalist, whatever.
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Othram, based in The Woodlands, Texas, specializes in advanced DNA testing and forensic genetic genealogy, a method that can help investigators identify suspects or unknown victims when traditional law enforcement databases do not produce a match.
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Against this backdrop, investor confidence in JCET has surged, with the company’s shares listed in Shanghai climbing 147 percent since the start of the year, driven by strong business growth and rising demand for advanced chip technologies.
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There's nowhere else to be at sunset, reclined on a beanbag, cocktail in hand, as the Maldives' paint chart of bright blues morphs into a canvas of ambers, pinks, peaches, and golds.
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Swirls of black, neon pink, orange, white, and green come together in a bold, high-contrast design that captures the vibrant spirit of Pucci's defining prints.
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Since overthrowing the Assad dynasty, Syria’s new rulers have struggled to exert control across the country and to check extremist groups.
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Since Musk, the world’s richest person, took over X (then Twitter) in 2022 in a $44B deal, the site has come under constant criticism for promoting extremist content and misinformation.
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The fight in Colorado's primaries is the latest example of a trend cropping up elsewhere, with progressives and democratic socialists seeking to shake up or fundamentally change the Democratic Party, in a dynamic that could define the cycle.
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After victories in New York City, democratic socialists are taking their fight against the Democratic establishment to Colorado.
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“Lefty.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lefty. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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