champ
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Could you stack 12 cups in under two seconds to become a European champ?
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
In this corner, the reigning heavyweight champ: a version of every Oscar-baiting, prestige movie you’ve ever seen.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026
Panettiere gave birth to her daughter, with boxing champ Wladimir Klitschko, in 2014 and has been vocal about her struggle with postpartum depression.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
So I got her frustration, but in the end, a deserving champ prevailed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Well, I gotta warn you, it’s a wild ride, so buckle up, champ.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
"Excitement, fatigue - everything. But this is the best moment of the season. We are still champs, two in a row, it's amazing."
From BBC ● May 30, 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
The defending Super Bowl champs may be 8-3, still in charge atop the NFC East, all but surely playoff bound.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 24, 2025
They didn’t know they were dealing with the reigning champs of the Maryvale College sports day.
From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
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
The eight superb, matched horses champed their eight matched bits.
From Time Magazine Archive
As jittery contestants champed at the bit, U. S. tennis fans mused over nine days of the dullest top-flight tennis since women played in ankle-length flannel skirts and panama hats.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
If you started the movie at the end, you wouldn’t be champing to find out what happens next.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 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
Kyro’s plan had me not run at all for two days, and now I’m champing at the bit.
From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen
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