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Over his decades in the NFL as a player and coach, Ditka compiled one of the greatest résumés in league history.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Potential punishments range from fines and points deductions to expulsion from the league.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
The Dodgers have the oldest group of position players in the league, so they cherished the bye that gave them five days off before the division series.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
England also finished as runners-up in 1975, when the tournament was contested in a league format.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Me, I’m still learning, but John Mark says if I played in a league with other kids my age, I’d destroy them.
From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper
Once we’re leagued up, we’ll post the results, and there’ll be a weekly column here summing up the score, the scenario, and the stats.
From The Verge ● Feb. 28, 2019
He may be leagued with his appointees to abstract and share a larger percentage of the assets than the law allows, thus cheating legitimate creditors.
From Time Magazine Archive
The interests leagued against Wiley, finally manufactured charges that he had misused the funds of his Bureau; and, though exonerated by President Taft after a careful investigation had been made, he resigned in protest.
From Time Magazine Archive
Other Post stockholders leagued to announce that Newhouse's 15% invasion was as far as he would be allowed to go.
From Time Magazine Archive
Big-hoofed gray horses spackled like wolves, that rolled their eyes and whinnied at my footfall, leagued with men as if strapped to their business by harness I could not see.
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
Uniting, and leaguing, and engaging to stand by one another.'
From Hard Times by Charles Dickens
The personal advancement of the southern Hy-Nials was more to him than the political advancement of his country; and he disgraced his name and his nation by leaguing with the invaders.
From An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 by Mary Frances Cusack
Meanwhile Modred had stirred up a revolt, and leaguing himself with the Saxon invaders, had usurped Arthur's throne.
From Selections from Wordsworth and Tennyson by William Wordsworth
She was charged with having squandered the public money, and with leaguing in secret with the common enemies of France.
From Lives of Celebrated Women by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich
Mind your own affairs—you're leaguing again me, and I'll engage Randal Rooney's at the bottom of all—and the cement that sticks you and Phil so close together.
From Tales and Novels — Volume 08 by Maria Edgeworth
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