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Recent Examples of reliever
The multi-inning reliever pitched in 15 minor league games last season, largely at Triple-A Round Rock, before he was released midseason.
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Shawn McFarland, Dallas Morning News, 8 Jan. 2026
Acetaminophen, the most common non-NSAID pain reliever, is also linked to an increase in blood pressure, although to a lesser extent, according to Jowza.
—Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 6 Jan. 2026
That group includes Dodgers reliever Edgardo Henriquez, a Venezuelan native who was pitching for La Tiburones de la Guaira in Caracas, the Venezuelan capitol.
—Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 6 Jan. 2026
The biggest free-agent impact signing is lefty reliever Caleb Ferguson.
—C. Trent Rosecrans, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reliever
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The number varied dramatically, from $28,900 in overtime to Police Officer Sikko Barghoorn to $42 for legal assistant Joanna Ortega.—
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Prior to his time at North Crowley, Harris served as head coach at Mesquite High School and also had stints as an assistant at Cedar Hill, Richardson, Arlington Seguin and Little Elm.—
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Kane opened the scoring on a two-man advantage with 29 seconds left in the first period.—
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Instead, Prairie View A&M was forced to foul on the other end, and UAPB guard Kristyna Boyd made one of her two fouls shots with 10 seconds to go to set the final score.—
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The Star reached out to both Rice’s agent and an attorney who has represented him in the past, as well as the NFL, on the matter.—
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An attorney representing the bakery says there's a reason the owners live and work on the property.—
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Nkanu was a twin, born with his brother via surrogate in 2024.—
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The couple is already parents to daughter Royce, who was born via surrogate in November 2022.—
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His reckless decision to escalate the aggression and number of immigration agents is a causal factor, regardless of the outcome of an investigation into this tragic death.—
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Researchers revealed that one of the key factors that enabled Despotopulos and his team to make these first-ever experimental measurements was access to the world’s highest-energy laser system, located at LLNL’s National Ignition Facility (NIF).—
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To make sure traffic always flows through their infrastructure, the extensions dynamically reconfigure Chrome's proxy settings using an auto-configuration script.—
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In 2022, the regime still maintained its proxy and partner network across the Middle East; its nuclear program, too, provided a protective shell.—
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Minneapolis police and deputies with the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office are still on the scene for crowd control measures, and metal gates have been set up to keep protesters at bay.—
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When a patrol deputy arrived, authorities said the suspect was found nude and swimming in a pond located on the caller’s property.—
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Good was seen in multiple videos reversing her Honda Pilot as ICE agents attempted to open her car door, then moving forward and to the right when the agent opened fire, first through the windshield and then twice through the vehicle's open window, killing the mother of three from Colorado.—
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On he west side of 35W, agents formed a line along the Lake Street corridor.—
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“Reliever.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reliever. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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