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  • verb Present participle of umpire.

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Examples

  • But umpiring is just a small piece of the operation for whatever you want to call our little baseball family.

    USATODAY.com - How they run the family business 2002

  • The umpiring was a bit iffy most of the night, especially in the tenth.

    Mets Merized Online 2008

  • Thanks to Sharon for doing the registration (and the timely "umpiring").

    Your Right Hand Thief 2008

  • Thanks to Sharon for doing the registration (and the timely "umpiring").

    Archive 2008-08-01 2008

  • With the lieutenant "umpiring" from the little wireless room of the tractor, Joe and Frank "stood" Jerry and Slim, and from a distance of a hundred feet apart the battle began.

    The Brighton Boys in the Radio Service James R. [pseud.] Driscoll

  • The ICC, in trying to deal with the kind of umpiring-induced bad blood that marred India's tour of Australia in 2007-08, have made it clear all along that the UDRS is there to get rid of the howlers.

    Home | Mail Online 2009

  • I picked his brain on a lot of topics, from concussions and the recent firings of umpire supervisors to how statistical analysis has changed the game of baseball and umpiring in particular.

    ceciliatan: Umps Care, they really do... ceciliatan 2010

  • They became good friends and he suggested that Jim take a one-credit class on umpiring that UCONN offered.

    ceciliatan: Umps Care, they really do... ceciliatan 2010

  • Not what you want at this hour.89th over: England 225-5 Bell 19, Prior 3: This is excellent umpiring from Bruce Oxenford.

    Pakistan v England: day three – live! | Jacob Steinberg and Rob Smyth 2012

  • As a student at UCONN, he studied communications, and had a job all lined up with a television station after graduation ... but peer pressure led him to give umpiring a try.

    ceciliatan: Umps Care, they really do... ceciliatan 2010

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