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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

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

The Dodgers are set to acquire Skubal, adding yet another ace to their rotation as they pursue their third consecutive World Series championship.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026

But Ernest had one last ace in the hole: Alfred Loomis.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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

While the Wimbledon grass often suits 'servebots' - tall players who send down flurries of aces and unreturnable first serves - Fery has needed to use other weapons.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 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

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

Three years later, he aced No. 7 at Pebble Beach, the cliff-side hole that at 106 yards manages to be both stunning and treacherous because it’s so steeply downhill.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026

She aced her triple axel and got her combination jump.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2026

Never mind that I aced it once I recovered.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

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