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The opening game saw Gauff thump a 112mph ace down the middle, followed by an unreturned first serve and another ace, on her way to holding serve in less than 90 seconds.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

Rybakina served out the win with an ace of her own – her sixth of the match and tour-leading 363rd of the season.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 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

This idea became more widespread on Aug. 2, when the Dodgers acquired ace lefthander Tarik Skubal to contribute to the team’s quest for a third strait World Series title.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

"How'd you do in English? I'll show you the door in short order if you flunked English, you little ace composition writer."

From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger

Rybakina leads all WTA players in aces this season, while no one has won a higher percentage of points behind her first serve than Sabalenka.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

Not everybody aces every Advanced Placement exam, though overwhelmingly they pass the state’s standardized tests, and according to Success Academy every graduate in recent years has been accepted to a four-year college.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

More: For 44 years, this investor held aces in the long-bond game.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026

If he teams up with Jacob Misiorowski or Chris Sale in a five-game divisional round they could face three games against aces.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 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

SoFi Stadium aced the physical infrastructure with working elevators, wheelchair escorts and accessible seating with clear sightlines on every level.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026

"He was given what's called a mini-mental state exam and he aced it. He got 29 out of 30," she said.

From BBC ● Jun. 5, 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

After he aced the exam and skated on Olympic ice, he said in a mix of broken German and sprinkled English that he had prepared hard for both tests.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2026

I aced the tests—“Eagle eyes and elephant ears,” the nurse said—but Lori struggled trying to read the eye chart.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls

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

“Now I have bragging rights with my friends,” Hirasaki said after acing the test on her first try.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 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