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At a selective high school, she failed an algebra exam she expected to ace.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
Instead, she coolly sent down her 12th ace of the match to secure her third Grand Slam title.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
On a Super Bowl-favorite team that includes Kyren Williams, Blake Corum and Ronnie Rivers, who is also a special teams ace, Hunter was not going to play unless there were a series of injuries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
But it’s ludicrous that the country’s ace legal reporters never provided the public even an inkling of these legal defects.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
They're both my friends, but Noodles, the younger brother, is my ace.
From "When I Was the Greatest" by Jason Reynolds
If the four aces can do to October opponents what the 1966 Orioles did to the Dodgers, or some reasonable 21st century facsimile, we’ll see you at the parade.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026
Scott’s track record of big aces and occasional double faults has followed him from tennis to college sports and back again.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Sometimes, the outfits are aces, leaving athletes feeling good and playing well.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
More: For 44 years, this investor held aces in the long-bond game.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
For a moment, I imagine a full hand of aces in that drawer, fanned out as a player would hold them in a game.
From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak
Crucially, the United States aced its only chance to make a first impression, kicking off this colossal World Cup it’s co-hosting with Mexico and Canada with a 4-1 victory over Paraguay.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2026
Levito, skating in her mother’s hometown of Milan where her grandmother still lives, calmly aced her Olympic debut with a score of 70.84 that put her in eighth place.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2026
On Friday Netflix aced out Paramount Skydance and Comcast to win this game of media thrones.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
The same AI that aced the genius test can’t count how many times the letter “R” appears in “strawberry.”
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2025
My uncles had told me stories about how famous my dad had been on campus for having simultaneously raised hell and aced all his classes.
From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green
Lowry had a hole-in-one on No. 6, a decade after acing the 16th.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2026
Meanwhile he brags about acing three different cognitive tests in the last year.
From Salon ● Jan. 2, 2026
For years, high-schoolers have boasted in college applications about learning Latin, leading the chess club or acing Advanced Placement Physics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 25, 2025
“Bragging about acing a cognitive test while forgetting the name of the doctor who gave it to you is like writing on a résumé that you speak three languages and misspelling the word ‘languages.’”
From New York Times ● Jun. 18, 2024
I took pride in acing my classes, plus our family needed every extra cent.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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