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A fourth-round draft pick in 2018 out of Crowder College—the same school as staff ace Jacob Misiorowski—Ashby rose through the minors as a starter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

The team first spotted ace driver Kimi Antonelli when he was in go-karts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

“I don’t necessarily think the Rays and the Brewers are the best examples of teams that need salary caps to compete,” Tampa Bay ace Drew Rasmussen said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

They did, actually: They thought their best chance to win was to run up the pitch count on Milwaukee ace Jacob Misiorowski and get him out of the game early.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

If not even Lara could ace this test, I’m not looking forward to my own score.

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston

It is an old adage in baseball that good pitching beats good hitting—which is especially true in October, when fastball velocities climb and aces reign.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

And if Glasnow can rescue the Dodgers, they would have their three high-paid aces — Skubal, Yamamoto and Snell — lined up for the next three elimination games.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

Some aces are portrayed as more equal than others.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Rybakina also leads the tour in aces and is capable of spending entire matches firing from the baseline.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

I find a few old packs of playing cards and pull out all the aces.

From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak

The two nations have almost identical populations, so how have the Scandinavians aced their plan of attack?

From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026

Steve aced the audition, and the four of us clicked immediately over our shared love of the Pretenders and all things Monty Python.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026

She aced her triple axel and got her combination jump.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 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

Tomorrow he’d ace that test, like he aced every test, and he’d move across campus to start the next phase of the Academy.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

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

She can't control the haters, but she can control her response and so Yasmin says she's just focused on protecting her mental health and acing the role.

From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2023

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