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He briefly turned emotional when the crowd tried to rally behind a four-time Open champ who’s so obviously battling his tennis mortality.

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

We’re barely one week into the three-week race, and four-time champ Tadej Pogacar has enough time on his rivals to stop and have an espresso and a chocolatine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 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

Dawn Celeste claims to be the gin rummy champ of the century.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti

"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 profligate defending back-to-back champs always seem two steps ahead of the rest of baseball—but their “villainy” remains within the rules .

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 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

Dear Paine, Donna, and my two favorite champs, This is the first postcard 1 ever wrote, so you should feel honored.

From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen

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

Weatherbound, airplane pilots chafed and champed until dawn.

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

“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

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