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The phrase "a lay-up" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in the context of basketball to describe a type of shot taken close to the basket, but it can also be used metaphorically to refer to something that is easy to accomplish.
Example: "Scoring that point was just a lay-up for the experienced player."
Alternatives: "an easy shot" or "a simple task".
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U.S. leads, 6-2, toanks to a Charles hook, Catchings lay-up and a lay-up off an inbounds steal.
When driving to the basket, a player's chance of making a lay-up is increased by using the outside hand to lay-up.
Make a lay-up from the blue square?
While I contemplated a lay-up, Miss Cheng handed me a driver.
Everything is either a lay-up in the paint, a free throw, or a three.
Since there is a lay-up mismatch where the two regions meet, stress concentrations are expected to occur when straight fibers are used.
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Vicky Canto-Ponce '00 shoots a lay-up in a game against Wheaton College on Tuesday.
For Mr. Olayos, friendship is as important a lesson as how to make a lay up or play defense.
And robust growth in e-commerce is a lay up as the brand gains more distribution.
This prepreg was used for a lay up of ten plies [0°/90°/0°/90°/0°] s to produce the rigid composite adherend with approximately 2.4 mm thickness.
A lay up of two plies [0°/90°] was used to produce the flexible composite adherend with approximately 0.37 mm thickness.
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