goalpost
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He has a gap in his teeth that feels like "the size of a goalpost".
From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2026
By the skin of their teeth, and the width of a goalpost, the bookmakers were proven right when they made England favourites at Twickenham.
From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2025
The 23-campus Cal State University system is shifting its goalpost.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2025
Then came a month of more misses than makes, with a botched extra-point attempt against the Buffalo Bills and a 26-yarder that clanged off the right goalpost in New England.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2024
She had 36 shinnied up a goalpost, tightrope-walked out to the middle of the crossbar, and was now standing there with her arms raised in a touchdown sign.
From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli
That "sounds very much like you're moving the goalposts," said Daco.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
She says: "The goalposts keep moving. As an autistic person, I don't even know what I should be called."
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
Inconsistency is common in micromanagers, West says, meaning they often move the goalposts.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
“They’re moving the goalposts the whole time. It’s scary.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2026
Volpe was among the masses who rushed onto the field and helped pull down the wooden goalposts, and for many years he kept a little chunk of one of them as a souvenir.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
