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left-handed

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adverb

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Recent Examples of left-handed
Adjective
Carter re-entered the game late in the third quarter and made a left-handed layup in traffic around Boston’s lengthy defenders. Chris Biderman, Sacramento Bee, 11 Jan. 2025 The Yanks are still looking to bring in a mid-level left-handed reliever and send out starter Marcus Stroman and his $18.3 million contract, but that’s it. Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 9 Jan. 2025 Things take a turn when Gregory enters the room, muscles bulging under his cardigan, looking for left-handed scissors. Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025 Earlier this season, Flores connected first, and Johnson responded with some left-handed jabs of his own. Alec Lewis, The Athletic, 1 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for left-handed 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for left-handed
Adjective
  • In a moment when Liston was hurling a clumsy punch and his balance was susceptible, Ali threw what looked like a swiping right graze at his opponent’s head.
    Mikal Gilmore, Rolling Stone, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Even observers who think the outlook for China’s economy is less dire agree that its growth is slowing and will be constrained by structural challenges and a clumsy policymaking process.
    Jude Blanchette, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Wallace’s fourth victim, Audrey Spain, and his seventh, Vanessa Mack, were killed in almost identical fashion — with double ligatures, says Price, who was lead detective on the Spain case.
    Michael Gordon, Charlotte Observer, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Living double lives, find themselves on a treacherous path where escape may be impossible.
    Marta Balaga, Variety, 17 Jan. 2025
Adverb
  • The truck rotated counterclockwise and ended up disabled facing south in the inside lane.
    Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2025
  • Strong winds circulate counterclockwise around this low pressure area, and build up and trap some of the coldest air in the Northern Hemisphere across the Arctic.
    Andrew Freedman, Axios, 2 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Though the two might have an awkward run-in in the Love Island All-Stars Villa.
    Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Ribas’ hands and movement were much crisper than that of Dern, whose movement was awkward and punches were slower and wilder than those of her foe.
    Trent Reinsmith, Forbes, 12 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Fraudsters have devised sophisticated registration bots to mimic real users, coded to flood companies’ systems with fake OTPs.
    Ethan Stone, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2025
  • While fake kidnapping calls aimed at exploiting worried parents are a familiar tactic for some criminals, advancements in technology are making these scams far more convincing and harder to detect.
    Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 12 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • While lip reading is commonly used as a way for those with hearing disabilities to understand speech and conversations, it’s also called upon for legal matters and police investigations.
    Emily Holgate, refinery29.com, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Also, lip skin is thinner, making blood vessels more apparent.
    Scott LaFee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Mar. 2024
Adjective
  • Two brothers were arrested this week on murder charges in connection to a 1997 Michigan cold case in which a man's headless and handless body was found in a cornfield, authorities said.
    Erin Pflaumer, CBS News, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Twenty-five years after authorities discovered a headless and handless man in a Michigan cornfield, arrests have been made in connection to the grisly murder.
    Tristan Balagtas, Peoplemag, 26 Jan. 2023
Adjective
  • The woman is long gone, so Freer has to imagine her consent — in a history so full of gaps, coercion, and disappearance, a pretended connection is better than none at all.
    Helen Shaw, Vulture, 28 Mar. 2022
  • What most activates Dunn’s rage is the misogyny that only deepened amid all the pretended freedoms of the counterculture.
    Sam Sacks, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2022

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“Left-handed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/left-handed. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.

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