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Suddenly the Braves, who will start ace Chris Sale on Tuesday, have the edge.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026
“We’ve got the ace of all aces in Chris Sale,” Braves pitcher Brent Suter said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 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
But manager Aaron Boone wanted his ace to give his team just a little bit more.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
I’ve got the ace, king, jack, and ten of diamonds!
From "Amina's Song" by Hena Khan
But Smith said he assumed Yamamoto, the Dodgers’ ace of the aces and last year’s World Series MVP, had everything under control.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
Against world number 48 Kalinina, Kartal served four aces and won 23 of 30 points when landing her first serve.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 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
Scott’s track record of big aces and occasional double faults has followed him from tennis to college sports and back again.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
We had been aces for so long, had been playing ball and running the streets for so long that we knew each other’s moves.
From "Slam!" by Walter Dean Myers
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
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
They placed him on a track for software development after he aced the exams to get into an elite middle school that fed to a top university.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026
Not when I aced every test he gave or finished at the top of every simulation.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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
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
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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