champ
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Panettiere gave birth to her daughter, with boxing champ Wladimir Klitschko, in 2014 and battled postpartum depression.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
Pogi is the defending Tour champ and the reigning back-to-back world champion who wins nearly every race he enters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Some have interpreted this as the defining moment when A.I. surpassed human prowess in math, akin to the moment in 1997 when IBM’s Deep Blue took down chess champ Garry Kasparov.
From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2026
Reigning champ “The Pitt” is the consensus No. 1.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026
To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when no one else will.
From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad
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"I've never done a home champs before so to have the crowd shout 'Abbie Donnelly' was an incredible experience."
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
The only other times they reached the Edison final was in 2015 when they won the Division 1 title and 2008 when they were undefeated state champs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026
The defending Olympic champs from up north had never taken a bagel in the Games before.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026
Red and green cabbage deserve more love here; they stay crisp, add color and hold onto dressing like champs.
From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2025
At the start of the day, there had been eight regional champs.
From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg
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The vampirelike lamprey, sneaking into the Great Lakes in the 19th century, gradually champed its way through the fish population.
From New York Times ● Feb. 29, 2016
Gung-ho Lehman bankers champed at Japanese conservatism and bureaucracy, while Nomura veterans chafed at how much Lehman staff were paid.
From Reuters ● Jul. 24, 2015
Now,' on his red leather bench, Winston Churchill champed, shuffled a handful of notes, twice rose in a false start before the Speaker gave him the sign.
From Time Magazine Archive
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We skated Wonderland numerous times over several days and all kinds of stuff went down, but Suski straight up champed out with five amazing tricks, all of which were photo-documented in an hour-nutter.
From Time Magazine Archive
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There came a low word of command "Halt!" then a moment of horsey noises—nostrils blowing, hoofs pawing, bits being champed, necks being patted.
From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis
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We know that many states are already champing at the bit to do that.
From Slate ● Apr. 30, 2026
“We’re champing at the bit to get the data,” one FAA official in Washington said at the time, as days stretched on after the crash without a black-box readout.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
“He’s champing at the bit, so that’s a good thing. He’s very anxious to get back out here and help his team.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2025
They are champing at the bit to memorialize him, but Fife’s motives in agreeing are not purely about the film.
From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2024
He was champing at the bit to get out there and start hiking.”
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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