contest
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Total authority for an entire game is a rare enough thing in this contest.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
With Mater Dei in their own half of the field on a third down, he found Honore along the sideline to pick up a first down and effectively end the contest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
The American duo won all four of their foursomes matches across the previous two editions of this contest and became the first to make it five on the spin with a comfortable 4&3 victory.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Los Palos refuted Lineage’s claims and said it plans to contest the accusations in court.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
"We were just making ice cream for the contest, Marcy," Nancy said.
From "Scream for Ice Cream: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #2" by Carolyn Keene
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Netflix also has Christmas games, while more international contests are played Sunday mornings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
There are more than a dozen gubernatorial contests with at least some degree of competition, including close races in Ohio, Georgia and Wisconsin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
Baleba's game is better suited to more open contests, but his passing profile suggests he may need time to adjust to greater responsibility in build-up.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
In Argentina, the contests have fueled numerous memes that have even been seized on by top-flight football clubs.
From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026
In these contests I am not the winner, I am more like an audience; though my brother does not brag, and would probably do the same things, by himself, if I weren’t there.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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A closely contested first set offered a hint of the momentum swings that would define the match.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
Whether the airport can in fact legally be constructed is being contested in the courts even as the runways get tarmacked.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
Consciousness is philosophically one of the thorniest issues of our time, and there is almost nothing we can say about it that someone serious has not already contested.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
The rise comes after prices fell by 7% last week, after talks between Iran and Oman on re-opening the contested waterway.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
Likewise, the celebrated rationality of the fifth century represents a retrospective bleaching of what was actually a complex and contested story.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
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The pair contesting the US Open final means they will close the Grand Slam season as they began it in the Australian Open's showpiece match.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
Earlier this year, the firm signed a 12-month agreement worth $1.2 million with Atiku Abubakar, who is contesting the Nigerian presidency.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
Some in Labour were unhappy when Lennon didn't make the ballot for this contesting, lamenting a lack of breadth in the contest.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
That history is why contesting the constitutional allocation of public safety cannot mean giving private people authority to govern vulnerable people.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
In the crafty vein, Madison was ingenious at contesting the strongest argument for a Pennsylvania location, which was its geographic centrality.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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