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field

[feeld] / fild /




VERB
catch a hit or thrown object
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If no player has been selected within 10 seconds, the captain must leave the field.

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

Still: Rigorous testing feels like a necessary inconvenience at a time when records set in doping eras continue to be shattered—not just by Pogacar and Vingegaard, but by other riders in the field.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 27, 2026

Young Saturn's magnetic field was not strong enough to create a similar cavity.

From Science Daily Jul. 27, 2026

BBC Sport understands that the Australian A-League will trial a variation with the captain always having to leave the field.

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

Now Patch was at the edge of the field, coming toward us.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff

Existing theories of satellite formation offer several possible answers, but recent research into stellar magnetic fields suggests that some of those ideas may need to be reconsidered.

From Science Daily Jul. 27, 2026

Throughout Saturday evening, crews were tackling small fires, which had spread due to the wind, in neighbouring fields.

From BBC Jul. 26, 2026

"There are fields we are supposed to be cutting, but there are just not enough people. Local people don't like this job because it is back‑breaking and physical," he said.

From Barron's Jul. 26, 2026

Chevron owns a 15% share in the pipeline—the Caspian Pipeline Consortium, or CPC—which carries crude from three giant oil-and-gas fields across the mountainous terrain of Kazakhstan into Russia and out to the Black Sea.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 25, 2026

As soon as the white car disappeared down the DeLunas’ drive, I picked myself up and headed out through the fields, then around the base of the mountain.

From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan

He has also fielded calls for job opportunities from people at Polestar’s U.S. headquarters in New Jersey, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

Her agency has fielded all sorts of parenting requests: providing equestrian nannies who travel to tournaments, baby chefs to prepare culturally specific purées for infants, personal stylists for the children.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 18, 2026

The talent pool there is so deep, France probably could have fielded a B team in this World Cup and made it to the quarterfinals.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 13, 2026

In the same meeting, the BBC bosses also fielded questions about other topics including long-running attempts to recover £200,000 from disgraced former news presenter Huw Edwards.

From BBC Jul. 8, 2026

He and his wife indulged every photographer and cheerfully fielded calls from reporters at any time, day or night.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

In the labyrinthine alleyways of Cairo's Garbage City, recycling specialist Peter Romany finds himself fielding calls from factories scrambling for plastic to plug supply shortfalls caused by the Iran war.

From Barron's Jul. 18, 2026

Storage Sale: Across Silicon Valley, startup founders are enjoying a wave of computing credits and fielding competing offers from AI-model makers racing to land new enterprise customers.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 12, 2026

Overhauling Australia was always going to be a huge ask, given the 16-0 margin of England's Ashes defeat last year, when issues with fitness and fielding loomed large.

From BBC Jul. 5, 2026

A sparkly disco jacket owned by the wife of the fielding coach…

From BBC Jul. 3, 2026

Her fielding couldn’t have been worse, but we were piling up too many runs to take serious notice of it.

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger




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