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This idea became more widespread on Aug. 2, when the Dodgers acquired ace lefthander Tarik Skubal to contribute to the team’s quest for a third strait World Series title.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Like so many of his peers these days, New York Yankees ace Cam Schlittler throws ridiculously hard.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
Dodgers starter Justin Wrobleski gives up two home runs and Brewers ace Jacob Misiorowski holds the Dodgers’ big hitters at bay in Milwaukee’s 4-1 victory.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
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
If Moran'd been there too it'd’ve been an ace laugh.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
Sometimes, the outfits are aces, leaving athletes feeling good and playing well.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
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
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
He turned out to be one of the Luftwaffe’s most celebrated and deadly flying aces, and he wanted to meet the pilot who’d shot him down.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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
She aced her triple axel and got her combination jump.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2026
Netflix has for now aced out Paramount Skydance in a bidding war for Warner Bros.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026
Even though Connor aced a hard spelling problem and Claire came through on a difficult history question, Perry Valley kept staying one or two points ahead of us.
From "Out of My Mind" by Sharon M. Draper
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
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