curveball
Example Sentences
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Still, Stafford will turn 38 the day before the Super Bowl, and it wouldn’t be much of a curveball if that were his last game, especially if the Rams were to win.
From Los Angeles Times
“They finally seemed to figure shale out, and here comes another curveball.”
We'll sometimes throw each other a curveball with a pick choice but it never gets heated or anything like that.
From BBC
Alongside Anderson’s film were Josh Safdie’s frenetic ping-pong dramedy “Marty Supreme,” Yorgos Lanthimos’ latest curveball “Bugonia,” Park Chan-wook’s South Korean satire “No Other Choice” and two films directed by Richard Linklater — the cinephile homage “Nouvelle Vague” and the quietly old-fashioned character study “Blue Moon” starring Ethan Hawke.
From Los Angeles Times
In September, however, the same 6-3 majority threw another curveball.
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