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left field

noun as in limbo

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On his 24th birthday, Robles doubled in the third and was knocked in by Turner, then lifted a ball to the left field corner to score Gomes in the fourth.

Engineering giant Honeywell burst into the quantum computing race out of left field last year.

This week, Schwarber even jumped — let’s not say “leaped” — above the left field fence to rob a home run.

Perhaps because nobody really knows how to market a film during a pandemic, Barb and Star emerged somewhat out of left field.

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By then, Harrison was in left field, continuing his ongoing trip around the diamond.

In the 13th inning, a Red Sox batter popped one down left field line and Jeter went to get it.

“It really came out of left field,” he says of the whole Donald Sterling fiasco.

On gun control, a hair-trigger issue for Republicans who pick the nominee, Christie is in the center or even center–left field.

After the success of Mulholland Drive, and the left-field blockbuster, The Ring, Watts became a household name.

You could be in a foul mood and he would come up with something out of left field to put a smile on your face.

It was a fly to left field, as long as the one that had baffled Prissler a moment before, but much higher.

Just before his leg hit the sack at second, Bonfire stole a glance toward left field.

Weir lifted a high fly to left field, and when the ball dropped into the fielder's hands Ray ran home on the throw-in.

I held down left field for two seasons on the greatest college team ever developed out West.

That means he swings at the ball late and makes most of his drives to left field.

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On this page you'll find 45 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to left-field, such as: disproportionate, improper, incorrect, irrelevant, tasteless, and unseemly.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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