curveball
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I never expected life to throw me this curveball.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
But a scheduling curveball this year is shaking up the routine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
Four of the last five outs he’d recorded were strikeouts, with a different putaway pitch for each: slider, sinker, curveball, changeup.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
But only moments after the game's traitors were selected, a huge curveball was thrown when Richard E Grant did something no one has done on the show before.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
When Matt Cain pitched a curveball, twenty balls flew across twenty screens.
From "Crenshaw" by Katherine Applegate
Alaska has struggled with rising fuel costs in recent months, and it has faced curveballs such as IT outages last year and harsh weather that dented demand for trips to Hawaii.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
Families who have lived in Big Sur for generations have come to expect their share of curveballs, particularly as climate change has accelerated rapid swings between intensely wet and dangerously dry weather.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
No curveballs, but then there was never going to be.
From BBC ● May 19, 2026
Yamamoto reached into his five-pitch repertoire Saturday, mixing in six fastballs, eight splitters, five sinkers, four cutters, four curveballs and three sliders.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2026
All he did was set the Say Hey Kid down swinging — on three straight curveballs.
From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli
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