game
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Cregger told Newsbeat he'd had no contact with the game developer while working on the film.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
The issue is whether schools and youth sports organizations should sponsor a game whose primary health risks can’t be prevented by equipment technology alone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
It follows recent video game adaptations such as the Minecraft and Super Mario Bros films, which were poorly reviewed but hugely popular.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
By the time the game kicks off, however, the Rebels’ total war on Kiffin, the man who led them for six seasons, will have been raging for months.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Upon his arrival, he and a friend invent a game.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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As Netflix extends its reach into podcasts, games and live TV, Wells Fargo analysts say it has sacrificed what once made it great: original shows and movies.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
University of Michigan graduate Jolin Ellison wields a deep pocket and a powerful voice directed at winning football and basketball games.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
They are more focused on the perceived under performance of so many players given the 12 games out of 17 that were won under the 45-year-old over the second half of last season.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
But there is one crucial difference: friendly golf games don’t usually cost $43 million.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
The games were meant to show the various types of poetic meter: iambic pentameter, for example, which William Shakespeare used to marvelous effect in many of his poems and plays.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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South Korea's formidable team will be spearheaded by superstar gamer Lee Sang-hyeok.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
Mike Demopoulos, a 40-year-old gamer in Minnesota who works in web hosting and has a Pac-Man tattoo, subscribed to SuperPower soon after reading about the clean-energy initiative.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
GameStop said Thursday that one gamer in Columbus, Ohio, visited one of its locations to trade in some of his old physical games for store credit.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026
"My initial reaction was one of confusion and shock," Ben, a UK-based 24-year-old gamer who covers GTA news on social media, told me following the announcement.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
I’m a pro at trolling gamer boys online.
From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas
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“He was one of the coolest, neatest, kindest, gamest horses I’ll ever have. When I saw him in there, my heart sank.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2017
Lots of good intentions and the gamest efforts of able leading actors, respectively Gary Oldman and Ed Harris, could not breathe life into those turkeys.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2010
Though beaten after the gamest losing campaign since Bryan in 1896, Wendell Willkie polled: 1.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Little Old Man Ledoux, gamest of the game.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Whatever else he may have been, he was certainly one of the gamest fighting cocks that ever lived.
From Bible Romances First Series by G. W. (George William) Foote
He said the airline has gamed out the possibility that oil prices jump to $175 a barrel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026
But under a "worst-case scenario" gamed out by Eurasia Group, damage to Iran's oilfields permanently hits the country's exports, while the precarity to Hormuz traffic persists.
From Barron's ● Mar. 2, 2026
However, SEC rules governing derivative-linked volatility could probably be gamed to a certain extent, he said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2025
I am playing a gamed called “Election Day” at Appleseed Avenue, a relatively new escape room in a multi-story strip mall in Newhall.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2025
Eisman didn’t know exactly how the rating agencies had been gamed.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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In terms of new software, the Japanese gaming giant has now "shown everything that they have" for this calendar year, with a dearth of big original titles, Toto told AFP.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
The 23 claimants who were dismissed last year for what Rockstar Games called "gross misconduct" have taken the gaming giant to court for unlawful dismissal.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
An online gaming company challenged the seizure in court, claiming it owns the wallets and has no link to the scam.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
In company news, shares in Japanese gaming giant Nintendo sank 5.5 percent following an online showcase of upcoming games that analyst Serkan Toto of Kantan Games called "very underwhelming".
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
Rumors began to circulate that Gregarious Games was developing some sort of new computer gaming hardware and that this secret project was rapidly exhausting the company’s considerable financial resources.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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