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Runner-up Rybakina had one ace and four double faults, hitting just 13 winners and making 23 unforced errors in total.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
And before they can fix their ace, the Pirates first have to figure out what’s wrong with him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
The findings represent the latest in a flurry of publicly disclosed instances of AI models taking novel steps—including some that are nefarious—to ace tests.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
They’d done something similar in the National League Division Series last year to Brewers ace Freddy Peralta.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
A new pack fresh out of the box, arranged by suit and in sequence from ace to king, can be said to be in its ordered state.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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
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
He won 87% of points behind his first serve and hit 13 aces to two double faults.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
You knew he held aces up his sleeve.
From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez
"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
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
He then aced the fifth hole at Harding Golf Course on Thursday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026
She aced her triple axel and got her combination jump.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2026
My uncles had told me stories about how famous my dad had been on campus for having simultaneously raised hell and aced all his classes.
From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green
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
“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
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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