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basketball

[bas-kit-bawl, bah-skit-] / ˈbæs kɪtˌbɔl, ˈbɑ skɪt- /
NOUN
team sport
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“I’m not putting her in the game to rebound,” said Kara Lawson, Reese’s head coach for the U.S. women’s basketball team, which won this summer’s World Cup.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

They baked cupcakes, made West African food, played pool and had a go at basketball.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

Gateway Center Arena in College Park, Ga., where the team has played most of its home games since 2021, seats only 3,500 people for basketball games.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

He proudly showed off the metal sign he just bought, marked "Penn Station," the subway stop for Madison Square Garden -- the arena where his beloved Knicks basketball team plays.

From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026

“I’m trying out for the basketball team after school today.”

From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko

At 10:30 a.m., the bell rings through the halls of William F. Prisk Elementary School in Long Beach, sending students racing onto the playground, throwing basketballs, doing cartwheels, gliding down slides.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026

Specs can digitize a chess board, provide AR-guided training for shooting basketballs and even highlight the coolant reservoir under the hood of a car, according to videos and photos online.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 17, 2026

She has seen the video evidence of the two of them, both still in kindergarten, launching basketballs over their heads at the backboard.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2025

There I was, dribbling basketballs like a Globetrotter, diving through inter-dimensional portals, riding on the back of a galloping dinosaur in an explosive train heist.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025

Every time the ship tilted, a mismatched herd of sports equipment rolled across the floor—footballs, basketballs, baseballs, and for some reason, a single billiard ball.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan


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