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pinch-hitter

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Or is the entire judicial branch disgusted with the patent system too, and they asked for a pinch-hitter?

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Alternative spelling of pinch hitter. [(baseball) A substitute batter; one who pinch-hits.]

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noun

Alternative spelling of pinch hitter. [(baseball) A substitute batter; one who pinch-hits.]

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for pinch-hitter.

noun

Alternative spelling of pinch hitter. [(baseball) A substitute batter; one who pinch-hits.]

Example sentences

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Or is the entire judicial branch disgusted with the patent system too, and they asked for a pinch-hitter?

2

I'm not on the team that owns the codebase; I'm just a pinch-hitter there to quickly fix customer-facing DevOps issues discovered in prod.

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I recently spoke in Paris as a pinch-hitter for someone who couldn't make it last minute, and they asked me what I could speak about.

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If the GUI or AI wants to cheat, undo moves, call in a pinch-hitter, or change their opponents agent mid-game, let them (all they need do is set the state and callbacks appropriately).

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All languages need time to grow up, but for now we use Node as a pinch-hitter in our stack (I created a Snowflake server with great results) Honestly, Facebook has a lot of frontend code.

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We catch the things that fall between the cracks; we are the glue that binds together the things that fall apart; we are the toolmakers, the automaters, the pinch-hitter sysadmins; we are problem solvers, the ones that do whatever it takes - and if we don't know how, we learn.

Quote examples

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So although handy for a "pinch-hitter" type emergency landing in broad daylight with one airport and one runway in sight, otherwise it's of little practical use.

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How do you use pinch-hitter in a sentence?

Or is the entire judicial branch disgusted with the patent system too, and they asked for a pinch-hitter?

What does pinch-hitter mean?

Alternative spelling of pinch hitter. [(baseball) A substitute batter; one who pinch-hits.]

What part of speech is pinch-hitter?

pinch-hitter is commonly used as noun.