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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a high stick" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in the context of sports, particularly hockey, to refer to a situation where a player raises their stick above a certain height, often resulting in a penalty.
Example: "The referee called a penalty for a high stick when the player accidentally hit his opponent in the face with his stick."
Alternatives: "an elevated stick" or "a raised stick".
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Oddly, Nedved was not penalized for a high stick.
"It's retaliation with a stick; it's not a high stick".
There was not only a blatant offside call missed when our players stopped and the Islanders scored, but there was also Potvin hitting the puck in with a high stick that they didn't call a high stick.
Blues defenseman Al MacInnis left in the third period after taking a high stick from San Jose's Scott Hannan.
Brenden Morrow's apparent goal with 2 34 was disallowed because the puck was passed with a high stick.
A high stick from Detroit forward Jiri Hudler opened the gash and resulted in the game-deciding power play.
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It is assumed that this change in composition is caused by the increased production of lower molecular weight molecule fragments containing carbon with a high sticking coefficient.
A perhaps somewhat related approach to the Sabatier curve are the experimental surface science studies by Attard and King [40] aimed towards the production of hybrid materials combining a component with a marked ability to dissociate N2 with a high sticking probability with a component which bonds weakly to nitrogen in order to produce a nitrogen metal bond of similar strength to Fe N.
The school-age population in the four chosen elementary schools — the first stage of the program would include only kindergarten through sixth grade on the theory that like language, teaching nutrition to younger children would have a higher "stick" rate — is 42.6percentt Hispanic, 41.3percentt white but not Hispanic and the rest divided among other ethnic groups.
Coyotes forward Rick Tocchet was suspended yesterday by the N.H.L., pending a hearing, for a high-stick penalty.
In contrast, in the case of Ag−6+O2 fast dissipative IVR on the time scale of ∼1 ps leads to a higher sticking probability for O2 but the O O bond is very rapidly deactivated and cannot participate in further oxidation processes.
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