left wing

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“Thankfully, I had been observing and watching everything. But I was reading the script off-stage and then someone would push me onstage and say, ‘I’ll meet you stage left, wing one.’

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026

It was the third successive game against Spain that James has started on the left wing, having also been a standout performer in England's victory over them in the Women's Nations League last year.

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026

It helps she is playing regularly on the left wing at Chelsea and has enough auditions in the bag for England that suggest that's her strongest position.

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026

The partially toothless Jack Hughes, left alone on the left wing, beat Canadian goalie Jordan Binnington cleanly 1:41 into the extra period to set off a wild celebration for the Americans.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2026

A terrible defeat, but not quite a complete one, for the left wing of the Army of the Cumberland had held firm under the command of a general named George Thomas.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt