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game

[gaym] / geɪm /






NOUN
individual sporting event
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NOUN
undomesticated animals chased for food
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Baltimore’s backup quarterback, Tyler Huntley, soon went down with an injury, too, leading to the emergency unwrapping of undrafted third-stringer Joe Fagnano in a game the Ravens would lose 36-10.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

It’s kind of like a lot of folks might go into a restaurant or a bar with the TV tuned to a game, but on mute.

From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2026

United go into Tuesday's game without a win in nine matches in all competitions.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

In fact, by one estimate, nearly one in five workers will skip work that day to play the game.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026

“Oh, it’s not that far, Grandpa,” I said, as I took off on a game trail.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

Fellow centre-back Luis Binks played 64 minutes of Brondby's win over Aarhus after missing their previous two games.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

Later Ravens coach Jesse Minter revealed that Jackson—who had missed the prior three games with a separate ankle injury—will have surgery and head off to injured reserve, his status to return unknown.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

The remaining schedule includes home games against Green Bay and Kansas City, a rematch at San Francisco, and two games against Seattle in the final three weeks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026

While Rangers' Lawrence Shankland is still missing through injury, fit again Che Adams should be in line for a recall after two goals in four games for Torino.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

Their favorite games had to do with blasting off and zooming and bashing.

From "All About Sam" by Lois Lowry

And, if you’re a gamer but not a horror connoisseur, Nadira Goffe helpfully breaks down whether Resident Evil will be too scary for you, using Slate’s highly scientific Scaredy Scale.

From Slate ● Sep. 21, 2026

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

An avid online gamer, he also makes time for his family and his hobbies.

From BBC ● Jun. 28, 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

I’m a pro at trolling gamer boys online.

From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas

“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

Said Champion Tunney, ". . . one of the two gamest."

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

Caught some splendid Arctic trout on the fly—the gamest fish we ever saw, and mighty good to eat.

From Young Alaskans in the Far North by Emerson Hough

One of the other criticisms of the scheme has been that providers have gamed the system, offering unnecessary and expensive services.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

They point to broader problems in the VA disability system, which is being gamed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

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

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

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

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

The resulting shortage has pushed up prices for laptops, gaming consoles and smartphones -- a squeeze that risks weighing on consumer demand for the devices that use Intel's chips.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

Marketing chief Julia Goldin says Lego is creating buildings sets around passions that cross demographic boundaries, such as gaming and Formula One.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

Flutter boss Kevin Harrington said the tax hikes had "fundamentally changed" the economic model of the UK betting and gaming industry, arguing it had helped "fuel the unlicensed, unregulated market".

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

Netflix since 2021 has bought gaming studios and invested in building its games division with mixed results.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

These users simply avoided entering any gaming or PvP zones where their defenseless first-level avatars could be attacked by NPCs or by other players.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline


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