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game

[geym] / geɪm /






NOUN
individual sporting event
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NOUN
undomesticated animals chased for food
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The highly anticipated game that was launched in July has experienced moderate performance so far, but its developers could continue to optimize its in-game experience after receiving feedback from gamers, they say.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 4, 2026

With that in mind, the chances of the midfielder getting more game time this season have definitely increased.

From BBC Aug. 4, 2026

But with science, medicine and smarter policies, we’re beginning to change the rules of the game.

From Science Daily Aug. 4, 2026

We could talk about Sept. 30, 1984, the date Mike Witt threw the Angels’ lone perfect game.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 4, 2026

He makes up a game with trolls and lava that we play over and over.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

Meanwhile, crowded gamer fans surrounded Tencent’s exhibition booth area at ChinaJoy, one of the world’s biggest gaming conventions over the weekend, showing continued enthusiasm for its games, the analysts say.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 4, 2026

Consumer electronics giant Sony last week also hiked its annual profit forecast, helped by strong sales in its video games division -- and the feeble yen.

From Barron's Aug. 4, 2026

Tencent currently has 109 mobile games in its pipeline, 64 of which have already been approved by China’s gaming regulator, they note.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 4, 2026

France's captain Antoine Dupont successfully switched to the format for Paris 2024, helping his nation to their first gold of the games and massively boosting his profile in the process.

From BBC Aug. 3, 2026

As I understood it, off the base he was also very popular—at the grocery store, church, ball games, and the like—in the White part of the community.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

Meanwhile, crowded gamer fans surrounded Tencent’s exhibition booth area at ChinaJoy, one of the world’s biggest gaming conventions over the weekend, showing continued enthusiasm for its games, the analysts say.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 4, 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

God of War fan and gamer Imogen Mellor tells BBC Newsbeat that seeing Laufey get her own story is "so exciting".

From BBC Jun. 3, 2026

A venue in Rotterdam turned itself over to fantasy dress-up and gamer fanaticism on the weekend, with thousands attending TwitchCon Europe.

From Barron's May 30, 2026

That’s when the gamer kid closer to me—I think his name is Jackson?— speaks up.

From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell

“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

Filion, who won 17 races with him in '68, says fondly: "He was the gamest horse I ever saw."

From Time Magazine Archive

Jesse Livermore, a friend from pre-War days in Chicago, Broker Block has called "the gamest and cleverest trader alive."

From Time Magazine Archive

George Shears was one of the gamest of the lot.

From The Story of the Outlaw A Study of the Western Desperado by Hough, Emerson

Unlike sports or elections, he said, there’s no regulator keeping watch over whether a reality show market is being run — or gamed — fairly.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 15, 2026

“Hedge funds are just liking the gamed uncertainty.”

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 29, 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

It was impossible to determine how badly the Wall Street firms had gamed the system.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Tencent currently has 109 mobile games in its pipeline, 64 of which have already been approved by China’s gaming regulator, they note.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 4, 2026

Xbox has also seen its own struggles lately, with owner Microsoft recently revealing revenues had dipped across its gaming division, external.

From BBC Aug. 3, 2026

Kalshi faces similar legal challenges in multiple US states where gaming regulators have issued cease-and-desist orders or filed suit accusing the platform of operating an unlicensed gambling business.

From Barron's Jul. 31, 2026

Los Angeles video gaming company Riot Games abandoned its return-to-office requirements in January, and surprisingly, more of its employees have been showing up at work.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 30, 2026

“I think you have slipped in any number of ways since last year. I understand for example that there was gaming in my dormitory this summer while you were living there.”

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles




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