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Finally, the Sun leads with something that will excite soccer "ace" Cristiano Ronaldo's fans – he is due to play himself in a TV drama.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
Boston has outscored its opponents 82-29 over this stretch, even with ace pitcher Garrett Crochet and star outfielder Roman Anthony both out with injuries that have sidelined them for months.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
“You’re thinking about going to the ‘pen, or do you let your ace go after Max and Tucker.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026
More: Only 5% of U.S. adults can ace this 8-question financial-literacy test.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 12, 2026
By July 1943, Lilya was a double ace.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
For 44 years, this investor held aces in the long-bond game.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 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
Known for her heavy groundstrokes and devastating serve, neither shot seemed to find their mark in a tense opening first set in which she registered only five winners and two aces.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
You knew he held aces up his sleeve.
From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez
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
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
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
A 14-year-old boy who has been homeschooled since the Covid pandemic will be going to university in late September after he aced his A-levels four years early.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2025
We were the first ones who’d ever aced her exam in under thirty seconds.
From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan
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
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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