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The U.S. national champ Quinn Simmons looks ready to win a stage and a mustache contest.

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

Look out LeBron James and Michael Jordan, there's a new basketball champ around.

From BBC ● May 27, 2026

Hard to choose between her, last year’s champ Hannah Einbinder and ‘Shrinking’s’ fabulous Jessica Williams.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026

But the undisputed champ of the purgatives was born in the enterprising mind of a jockey’s masseur named Frank “Frenchy” Hawley.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

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 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

Red and green cabbage deserve more love here; they stay crisp, add color and hold onto dressing like champs.

From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2025

Chicago are strangely the most consistent with eight wins in nine, but as they visit the Super Bowl champs on Thanksgiving we'll see just how good they really are.

From BBC ● Nov. 24, 2025

Big Creek kept winning, and the people in charge of high-school football up in Charleston kept saying it didn’t matter—there was no way we were going to be state champs.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

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

In the inner courtyard of Buckingham Palace eight beautiful horses champed impatiently at their bits.

From Time Magazine Archive

The eight superb, matched horses champed their eight matched bits.

From Time Magazine Archive

I kept my eyes fixed on Lucy, as did Van Helsing, and we saw a spasm as of rage flit like a shadow over her face; the sharp teeth champed together.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

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

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