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football

[foot-bawl] / ˈfʊtˌbɔl /




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“You know, I was with my boys,” said Lake, who played high school football with Amon-Ra St. Brown at Mater Dei.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

The local football club, Morriston Town AFC, cancelled a planned firework display on Friday.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

Right now, the rage on campus is the 9-0 football team, which delivered shocks to Army and Bowling Green, both FBS schools, in the past two years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

Rose, 45, created her namesake menswear label in London in 2007, with styles inspired by the rave and hip-hop scenes as well as punk and football.

From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026

I prefer geeking out on Nintendo or practicing guitar over spending a cold night at a football game.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

“My mom is still in the same camp, so I’ve been back three times now with a lot of footballs, football boots and football equipment,” Abdallah said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

The smell of rubbish hangs heavy in the air as pickup trucks and handcarts crawl through narrow alleyways, unloading the day's collections while children weave between them chasing footballs.

From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026

Long before the World Cup kicked off, U.S. manager Mauricio Pochettino wasn’t shy about setting extraordinarily high expectations for a country that believes footballs are oblong.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

The people waiting outside our ports of entry are not footballs stopped at the 1-yard line, letters suspended in a mail carrier’s hand, or dinner guests lingering on a porch.

From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2026

Among the whistles on colorful coiled plastic key chains, small blue rubber footballs, Frisbees, yo-yos, bubbles, and glow jewelry, I saw green and red and blue glitter pens.

From "It All Comes Down to This" by Karen English


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