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More: Only 5% of U.S. adults can ace this 8-question financial-literacy test.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 12, 2026
Sinner did not offer a break point until midway through the third set but dismissed the 39-year-old Djokovic's only opportunity with an ace before going on to win 6-4 6-4 6-4.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
I wish he was a little bit more of an ace.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
Plus, big banks ace an annual stress test, and more bald men shake their heads at hair transplants and toupees.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
My action implied that beneath my ace was some “nothing” card that I didn’t care to risk my money on.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
The grass particularly often suits tall 'servebots', who are able to thump down aces and unreturnable first shots, but Fery has other tools to hurt his opponents.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
Jones showed good fight in what was the longest match of her career, hitting 15 aces and landing 75% of her first serves.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026
Is that enough to force Roberts into the uncomfortable position of picking one of his aces over another, like a father picking one of his sons over another?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2026
One wonders how Mr. Ryan would stack up against such present-day aces as Paul Skenes or Tarik Skubal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
You knew he held aces up his sleeve.
From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez
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
Netflix has for now aced out Paramount Skydance in a bidding war for Warner Bros.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026
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
A 14-year-old boy who has been homeschooled since the Covid pandemic will be going to university in late September after he aced his A-levels four years early.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2025
Max had aced all his exams, and the summer stretched out ahead of him, sunny and sweet.
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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
According to the National Hole-In-One-Registry the odds of two players from the same foursome acing the same hole is 17 million to 1.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2024
We both ended up acing the test, but that episode kind of took the excitement out of climbing and pilfering tests and pretty much everything else.
From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx
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