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Recent Examples of first base
The Mets may currently be looking at promising power hitter Mark Vientos to play first base, with Brett Baty playing third.
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Bernie Pleskoff, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
Then, after laying down a drag bunt along the first base line, Randle retaliated, deliberately running off the base path to knock Wilcox down, sparking a brawl.
—Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2025
Finally, pitcher Gerrit Cole forgot to cover first base to further keep the inning alive.
—Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2024
Jose Miranda sits atop the Twins’ first base depth chart, if only by default, with Edouard Julien and Gasper as the other in-house options.
—Aaron Gleeman, The Athletic, 30 Dec. 2024
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Bernie Pleskoff, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
Then, after laying down a drag bunt along the first base line, Randle retaliated, deliberately running off the base path to knock Wilcox down, sparking a brawl.
—Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2025
Finally, pitcher Gerrit Cole forgot to cover first base to further keep the inning alive.
—Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2024
Jose Miranda sits atop the Twins’ first base depth chart, if only by default, with Edouard Julien and Gasper as the other in-house options.
—Aaron Gleeman, The Athletic, 30 Dec. 2024
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The church, about 500 yards from ground zero and near the Nagasaki Peace Park, is widely seen as a symbol of hope and peace, as its bell tower and some statues survived the nuclear bombing.—
Yuri Kageyama,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Jan. 2025
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After all, tourists from around the world pay to see sites like the Chernobyl in Ukraine, ground zero in New York City and former Nazi concentration camps in Poland.—
Gabriella Rudy,
NBC News,
12 Dec. 2024
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It’s been on the city drawing board for years but has yet to go any further.—
Paul Gattis | pgattis@al.com,
al,
27 May 2021
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Winter Park is back to the drawing board in charting a path forward for its former library, which sits within shouting distance of Park Avenue.—
Ryan Gillespie,
Orlando Sentinel,
9 Feb. 2023
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Popular on Variety At the beginning, these demonstrations are at the margins of the film — more like background noise than an integral part of the plot.—
Murtada Elfadl,
Variety,
18 Jan. 2025
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And high temperatures at the beginning of recent school years have closed school buildings across the country due to inability to handle the heat.—
Lexi Lonas Cochran,
The Hill,
17 Jan. 2025
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Getting used to the bare-bones shoot took time, but the nerve-racking encounters started on day one.—
Alamin Yohannes,
EW.com,
15 Jan. 2025
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Focus on profitability from day one, conduct rigorous user discovery and build a team and network with strong connections into your target industry.—
Jamil Wyne,
Forbes,
14 Jan. 2025
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Askarov is the real deal — so much so that limiting his starts might be for the best given how fierce the race for last place is.—
Dom Luszczyszyn,
The Athletic,
17 Jan. 2025
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After getting off to a rocky start, the company got a boost in the form of a $30 million token purchase by Justin Sun, a cryptocurrency executive who has been targeted by the Securities and Exchange Commission on fraud claims unrelated to World Liberty Financial.—
Karen Yourish,
New York Times,
17 Jan. 2025
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But from the outset, Darnold entered a locker room and an offense that had two seasons’ worth of reps together.—
Alec Lewis,
The Athletic,
9 Jan. 2025
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Data Lake Architectures: Optimizing For Latency And Scale When designing a data infrastructure for LLMs, prioritizing data lake architectures from the outset is essential.—
Chandra Kuchi,
Forbes,
9 Jan. 2025
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To be sure, the baseline of running’s appeal is its role in fostering connections and relationships.—
Martino Carrera,
WWD,
14 Jan. 2025
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Don’t send them down from the mountain in an imposing way; look at the bigger goals as a rough draft and baseline, then let your team add some additions and flavor.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes,
13 Jan. 2025
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“First base.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/first%20base. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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