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fadeaway

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fade·a·way  (fd-w)
n.
1. The act or an instance of gradually diminishing in brightness, loudness, or strength until actual disappearance occurs.
2. Baseball
a. A screwball.
b. An act of sliding by a base runner during which the runner veers sideways to avoid being tagged.


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Gay dribbled the ball in between his legs several times from the top of the key, crossed over to his right and drained a fadeaway 3-pointer over the outstretched arms of two Huskies defenders just before the shot clock expired.
You can sense a similar hesitancy from the American Collection's credit sequence--one whose sepia-tinged fadeaways diverge drastically from the usual prelude to Russell Baker.
The church's failure to deal pastorally with burned-out, frustrated fadeaways is a pervasive problem.
 
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