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The 21-year-old fittingly sealed victory with an ace to secure a place in the semi-finals on her tournament debut.

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026

A princess stakes her influence, an enemy ace his aircraft, a barge captain his ingenuity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

No World Series that began 3-0 has ever even gone to a sixth game, and the Brewers have their ace, Jacob Misiorowski, on the mound for Wednesday’s Game 5.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

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

“I’ve always been able to study up on something and ace something really fast. I thought it was all something special about me. Now it’s like, ‘Oh, a lot of Asperger’s people can do that.’

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

She hit the same amount of aces and double faults - eight apiece - and won only six of 24 points behind her second serve.

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026

Some aces are portrayed as more equal than others.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

World number two Sabalenka hit 11 aces and did not face a break point in a 6-1 6-3 victory over the Mexican.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

If the four aces can do to October opponents what the 1966 Orioles did to the Dodgers, or some reasonable 21st century facsimile, we’ll see you at the parade.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026

After switching sides, Glenn served for the next game, and started off just as strongly as Reggie, with two aces.

From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson

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

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

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

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