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“I think we’ve got the best talent in the league,” Yankees ace Cam Schlittler said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Tuesday’s 399-foot solo shot off of Sale’s sinker pushed the lead to 3-0 — a margin that no team has yet overcome against Dodgers’ ace Yoshinobu Yamamoto.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
Suddenly the Braves, who will start ace Chris Sale on Tuesday, have the edge.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026
Their rotation led the major leagues with a 3.30 ERA, despite Fried, longtime ace Gerrit Cole and star lefty Carlos Rodón all missing time with injuries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
If Moran'd been there too it'd’ve been an ace laugh.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
“We’ve got the ace of all aces in Chris Sale,” Braves pitcher Brent Suter said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
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
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
You knew he held aces up his sleeve.
From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez
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
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’m about to tell her about the maths test I aced just before half term and the book we’ve just started in English, when she carries on.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
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
Hortiz set the table for his successful debut season as an NFL general manager by acing his first draft and hopes to follow up with an equally impressive encore this week.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2025
He rose fast and steep - acing trials for Kent, London and the South East and England Counties - excelling at every level.
From BBC ● Sep. 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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