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ace

[eys] / eɪs /




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Back in 2023, Caballero had pulled a similar stunt with New York ace Gerrit Cole on the mound.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

Boston has outscored its opponents 82-29 over this stretch, even with ace pitcher Garrett Crochet and star outfielder Roman Anthony both out with injuries that have sidelined them for months.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 2026

“I don’t think there’s any need for a salary cap,” Pirates ace Paul Skenes said.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 13, 2026

More: Only 5% of U.S. adults can ace this 8-question financial-literacy test.

From MarketWatch Jul. 12, 2026

“Well, I thank you anyway, boy” I’m frustrated because of my final ace.

From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak

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

From MarketWatch Jul. 28, 2026

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

From MarketWatch Jul. 28, 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

When a man talks like that he might as well be accusing someone of carrying aces up their sleeve.

From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson

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

From BBC Jul. 7, 2026

There hadn’t been a single hole-in-one at the Masters since 2022, when Stewart Cink carded one on the 16th—the same hole Lowry had aced six years earlier with a brilliant 8-iron.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 12, 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

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

I aced all of my general education classes, which was a minor miracle given how I’d sit in lectures and think of the soft hook of Soraya’s nose.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini

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

The athlete continued to chronicle her body’s transformation on social media, acing a swipe-for-a-surprise maternity photo while vacationing in Europe last spring and using her platform to empower others.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 22, 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




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