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Examples
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If you were to believe this administration, it was all "curveball's" fault.
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"Humans constantly shift objects between central and peripheral vision and may encounter effects like the curveball's break regularly," Shapiro says in his work.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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"Humans constantly shift objects between central and peripheral vision and may encounter effects like the curveball's break regularly," Shapiro says in his work.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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"The curveball's not as good or you want to improve this or improve that."
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He can't lower his curveball's height because that would produce a ball that bounced well before it got to home plate.
The Hardball Times 2009
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"The curveball's not as good or you want to improve this or improve that."
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"The curveball's not as good or you want to improve this or improve that."
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Zhong-Lin Lu, a professor of cognitive neuroscience at USC, who along with USC alumni Emily Knight and Robert Ennis, and Arthur Shapiro, associate professor of psychology at American University, developed a simple visual demo that suggests a curveball's break is, at least in part, a trick of the eye.
Livescience.com 2009
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"The curveball's not as good or you want to improve this or improve that."
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Fortunately, there is another way to guesstimate if your curveball's hump is noticeable.
The Hardball Times 2009
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