champ

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

A semifinal loss at Wimbledon to eventual champ Sinner.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

Panettiere gave birth to her daughter, with boxing champ Wladimir Klitschko, in 2014 and battled postpartum depression.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026

Dylan was a total champ about it and loved the attention.

From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera

The Dodgers showed signs of life during Game 3 of the NLCS, but Bill Plaschke writes the reigning champs can’t survive their crushing collapse.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

Arguably, the 1951 championship is extra important here because it was an L.A. title, while the 1999 Super Bowl champs played in St. Louis.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026

The Nifty Fifty fetched about 47 times earnings at their peak, which is higher than a simple average of today’s champs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026

"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

What the coach didn’t say was that if we won and got into the Tournament of Champions the first team we would have to face was Carver, the defending champs.

From "Slam!" by Walter Dean Myers

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

As the favorites champed at the barrier, New York's Mayor Bill O'Dwyer rushed up with another dark horse: an international skyscraper city to be built in the midst of Manhattan.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

"Students were champing at the bit for somewhere to go," he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

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

“While Meta has a head start on AI glasses, competition is champing at the bit,” wrote Mike Proulx, a vice president and research director at Forrester in a blog post about Meta’s AI-powered glasses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2025

If you find your- self using this expression over and over again, you have a myopic imagination. champing at the bit.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner