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Tyler Lukrich Williams, a fire captain in Riverside County, Calif., planned for his 6-year-old to play low-cost rec ball.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

Before McKenna walked, they had touched the ball 37 times in North Macedonia's penalty area, North Macedonia had touched it twice in Scotland's.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

Now all Cassidy has to do is find fielders to catch the ball and hitters to drive in runs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

A powerful runner, a good defender and his ability on the ball is underrated - he showed it with a quality assist for Gordon.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

Bat felt a ball of anger rising up in his chest, hot and hard and loud, wanting to escape through his mouth in a yell.

From "A Boy Called Bat" by Elana K. Arnold

In a lighter moment earlier, the mayor, wearing a gray suit, had joined a tiara-wearing Miss Huntington Beach in selecting winners of a lottery—to run fireworks stands—from numbered balls in a bingo cage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Earlier, Abdul Samad smashed an unbeaten 30 off 15 balls as Pakistan beat Bangladesh with nine balls to spare in a semi-final reduced to 13 overs by a wet outfield.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

Campbell and Hope put on 110 in 79 balls for the second wicket, before a huge third-wicket partnership of 182 between Hope and Jangoo set the platform for a recrod total.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

It taps into humanity’s most ancient, addictive comedic truth, which is that some dude getting hit in the balls is hilarious.

From Slate ● Sep. 27, 2026

I’ll give her credit, though: She made up a can of dough balls for our bait.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

The Chinese space effort, by contrast, is “all balled up—security, military, all together, all in one.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026

I balled my hands into fists and stretched my arms out and up.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2025

That song, a hushed balled called Who I Am, will open his new album, Shawn, when it is released in October.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2024

Workers balled up bread for bait and threw lines over the side of the platform.

From Slate ● Dec. 16, 2023

Mother, I think with my balled hands covering my eyes.

From "The Sky at Our Feet" by Nadia Hashimi

"It's all dog, all the time," he said of Roscoe's balling talents.

From Barron's ● May 10, 2026

You can come in balling and throwing stuff, but to who?

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2025

Oklahoma City and the Cavs been balling for six months.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2025

“I’m telling you!” she cried, balling up her fists.

From Slate ● Feb. 4, 2024

We spread them on the tables and folded them carefully, lining up the sleeves of the shirts and the seams on the pants and balling the paired-up socks.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls