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How to pronounce “knuckleball”
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Pronunciation guide for knuckleball
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of knuckleball with real speech in context.
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- The Economic Naturalist
knuckleball so they'd miss that was
- Definition summary
- (baseball) A pitch thrown with the ball gripped on the fingertips and released with no rotation, which travels over an unpredictable path to the plate due to micro-turbulence in the air.
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How to pronounce knuckleball
The Economic Naturalist

knuckleball so they'd miss that was
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A Deep Dive Into “knuckleball”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (baseball) A pitch thrown with the ball gripped on the fingertips and released with no rotation, which travels over an unpredictable path to the plate due to micro-turbulence in the air.
- (cricket) A type of delivery where a fast bowler holds the ball on the knuckles of the index and middle fingers.
- (figurative, informal) An event that is hard to predict.
- [Verb]
- (intransitive, baseball) To pitch knuckleballs.
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