champ

In this corner, the reigning heavyweight champ: a version of every Oscar-baiting, prestige movie you’ve ever seen.

From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026

The childhood sports idols for my generation of cousins were Dodgers pitcher Fernando Valenzuela and boxing champ Julio César Chávez, not Mexican soccer legends Hugo Sánchez and Jorge Campos.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026

We’re barely one week into the three-week race, and four time champ Tadej Pogacar has enough time on his rivals to stop and have an espresso and a chocolatine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

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

Dylan was a total champ about it and loved the attention.

From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera

The profligate defending back-to-back champs always seem two steps ahead of the rest of baseball—but their “villainy” remains within the rules .

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

The only other times they reached the Edison final was in 2015 when they won the Division 1 title and 2008 when they were undefeated state champs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026

"Excitement, fatigue - everything. But this is the best moment of the season. We are still champs, two in a row, it's amazing."

From BBC ● May 30, 2026

Wembanyama, for his part, is taking aim at the reigning champs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026

After all, we were the league champs, the papers loved us, and college scouts were sending me letters like crazy.

From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers

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

The eight superb, matched horses champed their eight matched bits.

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

He was champing at the bit to get out there and start hiking.”

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer