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The Rams’ Les Snead found a way to build a perennial contender by rethinking the market as a value investor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026

If he can match that form across the 2026-27 season - and if Arsenal can take the shackles off with the tension gone after ending their title drought - he may be a contender.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

And it seems to me that the country has a formidable present-day contender, the novelist Anjet Daanje.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

His "spoof" contender was making him "look rather silly", Queen Mary University of London politics professor Stijn van Kessel told AFP.

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

He’d set his sights on trying out for the Cleveland Browns—not as a player, but rather as a contender for the role of a wide-eyed, gape-mouthed faux animal named Chomps.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

Aside from the Northern Irishman there were few moments of sparkle on show elsewhere among the potential contenders, albeit Justin Rose's slam-dunk hole-in-one on the par-three ninth was an obvious exception.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026

On Thursday, the animal shelter held a silent auction among the four contenders who had come forward wanting to adopt him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

But they are the first since the start of the campaign to directly target contenders for the Elysee.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

A record 34 candidates stood in the contest, but Binface and Reform UK leader Nigel Farage were the only contenders to secure more than 500 votes.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026

Ulbrickson hustled all five boatloads of varsity contenders back out onto the water in the wind and the rain.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown