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fielding

[feel-ding] / ˈfil dɪŋ /
VERB
catch a hit or thrown object
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The court will also keep fielding emergency requests, some of which may break news.

From Slate • Jun. 30, 2026

Dembele plays as a roaming false nine who can drop deep for Paris St-Germain - hence Deschamps fielding him just behind Mbappe - and so on.

From BBC • Jun. 30, 2026

His years of fielding phone calls from clients, listening to their hopes and their gripes, taught him how players’ personalities fit together—how to build a team, in an era increasingly governed by individual numbers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 15, 2026

“We have been fielding incoming investor debates around fears from third party credit card data into results and which should amplify today’s strong results,” Siegel wrote.

From Barron's • Jun. 2, 2026

Riverview—with Grace, Kojo, and Jake taking turns fielding questions—had breezed through its first two rounds without a single wrong answer.

From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein



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