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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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“There’s still a lot of the season left,” manager Dave Roberts said before the game.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 28, 2026

Some video game fans are flabbergasted at Sony's decision to discontinue disc sales from 2028 at Germany's Gamescom trade show -- leading to calls for a boycott.

From Barron's Aug. 28, 2026

“Having a company remain independent, at least at this stage in the game, is definitely something that’s very exciting and interesting to follow.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

And they booed when a safe call at first withstood replay review instead of ending the game on a double play.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 28, 2026

I turned off the game and opened my laptop.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows

In January, the European Commission took receipt of the "Stop Destroying Videogames" petition, signed by almost 1.3 million people, after high-profile instances of games being switched off.

From Barron's Aug. 28, 2026

Edge rusher Wesley Bailey, who made a big impression in the first two preseason games, started against the Chargers but played only two snaps and had one quarterback pressure.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 28, 2026

“Everyone around here was like, ‘Hey, we win games here,’” Skubal said.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 27, 2026

I got Sunderland really badly wrong last season but there's a lot of talk that they could be in trouble this year with so many games.

From BBC Aug. 27, 2026

“If war never comes,” a Life magazine article suggested, “children can claim it for a hideaway, father can use it for poker games, and mother can count on it as a guest room.”

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

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

Aside from yours truly, Aech was the best all-around gamer I’d ever encountered.

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

“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

Little Old Man Ledoux, gamest of the game.

From Time Magazine Archive

Warde, you’re the gamest scout that ever lived, but you’re reckless.

From Roy Blakeley's Bee-line Hike by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

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

However, SEC rules governing derivative-linked volatility could probably be gamed to a certain extent, he said.

From MarketWatch Oct. 23, 2025

Livingston is one of hundreds of communities across the U.S. that have successfully fought FEMA’s proposed maps through an appeals process that researchers say is widely gamed by local officials and property owners.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 19, 2025

Upon their return from Las Vegas, they set out to pester the rating agencies, and the Wall Street people who gamed their models, for more information.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Netflix and Rockstar have partnered in the past to make previous versions of GTA available on Netflix's mobile gaming section.

From Barron's Aug. 27, 2026

Park So-yeon is set to become the first woman to represent South Korea's national team in eSports and wants to pave the way for more in the male-dominated world of competitive gaming.

From Barron's Aug. 27, 2026

County and state officials are gaming out responses to immigration raids near voting centers.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 23, 2026

General Intuition’s model is trained on millions of hours of videogame play from real humans, gathered from its sister service Medal.tv, a platform for capturing and sharing gaming clips.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

All the tables, chairs, couches, beanbags, gaming rockers, and floor pillows are pushed to the sides.

From "A High Five for Glenn Burke" by Phil Bildner




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