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She then won the tie-break - for a 10th successive time at the US Open, in a run dating back to 2021 - to complete her comeback, sealing the victory with a nerveless second-serve ace.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
The Ospreys—no such thing as a Seahawk, my know-it-all 13-year-old son wants to remind you—are a balanced franchise with an ace coach, and playmakers on both sides.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
With Milwaukee ace Jacob Misiorowski — the favorite for the NL Cy Young Award — giving up just five hits, the Dodgers struggled against a pitcher they could see again in the postseason.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
But if success was ever going to come for the Buccos, it would have to hinge on their generational ace.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
I showed my hole card ace; John had three queens.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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
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
Osaka landed just 53% of her first serves and was broken on four occasions, while Sabalenka won 83% of points on her first serve - helped by 12 aces.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026
Jamie ended up with two aces and twelve cards more than I; the game cost me thirty-four cents.
From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg
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
He then aced the fifth hole at Harding Golf Course on Thursday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026
Netflix has for now aced out Paramount Skydance in a bidding war for Warner Bros.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026
Never mind that I aced it once I recovered.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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
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
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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