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Instead, she coolly sent down her 12th ace of the match to secure her third Grand Slam title.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
But it’s ludicrous that the country’s ace legal reporters never provided the public even an inkling of these legal defects.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
On a Super Bowl-favorite team that includes Kyren Williams, Blake Corum and Ronnie Rivers, who is also a special teams ace, Hunter was not going to play unless there were a series of injuries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 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
I’ve got the ace, king, jack, and ten of diamonds!
From "Amina's Song" by Hena Khan
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
Sometimes, the outfits are aces, leaving athletes feeling good and playing well.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
More: For 44 years, this investor held aces in the long-bond game.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
Sabalenka hit eight aces, and no double faults, and saved the two break points she faced, ultimately going on to lift the trophy.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026
She aces it, a perfect serve at about ninety miles an hour that kisses the court just inside the line before I can move.
From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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
She aced her triple axel and got her combination jump.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 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
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
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
“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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