ball
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It is unique style of play but these overloads have given Swansea extra solutions around the ball, helping disorganise both zonal and man-marking systems.
From BBC β Oct. 17, 2026
The winger decides to pay closer attention to Swansea's left-back which leaves the centre-back free with time on the ball.
From BBC β Oct. 17, 2026
I had friends that worked there in high school, too, so I was there almost every day having matzo ball soup and coffee.
From Los Angeles Times β Oct. 16, 2026
More willing to listen to his body and to communicate what it’s telling him with the ball club that relies on him so much.
From Los Angeles Times β Oct. 16, 2026
Jonah’s head bobbed up and down like a ball atop a spring.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
But Mitchell spat on three straight balls to get to a full count.
From Los Angeles Times β Oct. 16, 2026
You know, just hitting some tennis balls and having a taco occasionally, just floating through life.
From Los Angeles Times β Oct. 14, 2026
Earlier that day, in Room 526 at the 25hours Hotel Terminus Nord, a crowd of women socialized with their dogs, who played with Paris-Dog-Week-branded balls.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 14, 2026
He faced 33 balls and did not score a run, making his duck the longest by an Australian opener in Test history - the third-longest by any Test opener.
From BBC β Oct. 9, 2026
I felt like something ill was festering in my stomach, and my head felt like a piñata stuffed with cotton balls.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe GarcΓa McCall
The Chinese space effort, by contrast, is “all balled up—security, military, all together, all in one.”
From The Wall Street Journal β May 15, 2026
She balled it up and tossed it back to the front-row fans before walking off and pointing toward the fans with a smile.
From Los Angeles Times β Aug. 10, 2024
Workers balled up bread for bait and threw lines over the side of the platform.
From Slate β Dec. 16, 2023
And on the desk, near the room phone and a stamped envelope, a letter is balled up.
From New York Times β Nov. 8, 2023
I grab a pair of balled socks from the clean-clothes basket and lob it at her head.
From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone
"It's all dog, all the time," he said of Roscoe's balling talents.
From Barron's β May 10, 2026
The firm renamed it Tropicana Brands Group, balling up other beleaguered beverage properties too, and packed it full of debt.
From Slate β Apr. 20, 2026
They are local heroes in brilliant yellow who have risen from the brink of bankruptcy to balling like a frost-kissed Brazil.
From BBC β Mar. 16, 2026
“I was balling in Maryland but I wasn’t getting the looks I needed so I wanted to show I can ball on both sides of the country,” said Torres, son of head coach Joe Torres.
From Los Angeles Times β Dec. 1, 2024
Fuchsia rips off another section of the flyer and starts balling it up between her fingers.
From "The Benefits of Being an Octopus" by Ann Braden
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