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The U.S. national champ Quinn Simmons looks ready to win a stage and a mustache contest.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

Some have interpreted this as the defining moment when A.I. surpassed human prowess in math, akin to the moment in 1997 when IBM’s Deep Blue took down chess champ Garry Kasparov.

From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2026

Look out LeBron James and Michael Jordan, there's a new basketball champ around.

From BBC ● May 27, 2026

Like with his media empire, Turner began his sailing career as a noisy arriviste, and finished as a champ.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026

Coach is over the moon, pumping his fists like a champ.

From "Black Brother, Black Brother" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

Palisades 62, Eastvale Roosevelt 56: The City Section Open Division champs advanced to the Division II regional semifinal, knocking off the top-seeded defending state champion Mustangs on the road.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2026

Red and green cabbage deserve more love here; they stay crisp, add color and hold onto dressing like champs.

From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2025

The defending Super Bowl champs may be 8-3, still in charge atop the NFC East, all but surely playoff bound.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 24, 2025

Chicago are strangely the most consistent with eight wins in nine, but as they visit the Super Bowl champs on Thanksgiving we'll see just how good they really are.

From BBC ● Nov. 24, 2025

There had been a few seventh graders scattered among the other teams, but all the rest of the middle school regional champs were eighth graders.

From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg

The vampirelike lamprey, sneaking into the Great Lakes in the 19th century, gradually champed its way through the fish population.

From New York Times ● Feb. 29, 2016

Gung-ho Lehman bankers champed at Japanese conservatism and bureaucracy, while Nomura veterans chafed at how much Lehman staff were paid.

From Reuters ● Jul. 24, 2015

As jittery contestants champed at the bit, U. S. tennis fans mused over nine days of the dullest top-flight tennis since women played in ankle-length flannel skirts and panama hats.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now,' on his red leather bench, Winston Churchill champed, shuffled a handful of notes, twice rose in a false start before the Speaker gave him the sign.

From Time Magazine Archive

I kept my eyes fixed on Lucy, as did Van Helsing, and we saw a spasm as of rage flit like a shadow over her face; the sharp teeth champed together.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

We know that many states are already champing at the bit to do that.

From Slate ● Apr. 30, 2026

“We’re champing at the bit to get the data,” one FAA official in Washington said at the time, as days stretched on after the crash without a black-box readout.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025

“That is what all of the nonprofits are going to be champing at the bit to know,” said Jenni Campbell, executive director of the L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2025

They are champing at the bit to memorialize him, but Fife’s motives in agreeing are not purely about the film.

From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2024

Kyro’s plan had me not run at all for two days, and now I’m champing at the bit.

From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen