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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
European gold and silver medallists Romell Glave and Jeremiah Azu contest the men's 100m alongside world champion Oblique Seville, while Matthew Hudson-Smith is in the 400m after his triumph in Birmingham.
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
But in the more immediate contest, Republicans need Vance and other party figures to help deliver Trump's voters in an election in which the president himself is absent from the ballot.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
It was clear Specimen considered Jeremy's banishment from the contest fair punishment for getting the class in trouble to begin with.
From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville
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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 35 contests on the ballot in November.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 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
The second set had been culled from previous contests.
From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg
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It will be the first time the top two women's seeds have contested a US Open final since Serena Williams beat Victoria Azarenka in the 2013 showpiece.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 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
Intelligence is a contested term, but Mr. Damasio seems to use the word to signal an ability to solve problems without reliance on rote procedures.
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
But the recognition that these were the competing options, the contested versions, if you will, of what the core legacy of the American Revolution truly meant, first became visible in the summer of 1790.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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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
China's Olympic champion Zheng Qinwen, contesting a Grand Slam qualifying event for the first time since 2022, beat France's Clara Burel won 6-1 7-5 to set up a match against Russian Elena Pridankina.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
Randy Mastro, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, filed a letter on Tuesday contesting the automatic stay and maintaining that the court’s emergency pause is still in effect.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 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
Gray urged all three to consider the hazards of contesting the charges in court.
From "Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice" by Phillip Hoose
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