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It’s stunning to see a high school kid hit a walk-off home run in a major league park.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026
He featured in 37 league matches as Girona secured Champions League qualification for the first time, registering nine goals and eight assists.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
He’s also the only coach in the league to have won the title before.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
After Saudi Arabia’s sovereign-wealth fund said earlier this year it would no longer back the league beyond this season, LIV’s future plunged into uncertainty.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
The real authority in the school was held by the never-quite-named, never-quite-described, never-quite-admitted-to group of senior pupils forming the first and most influential members of the league.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
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
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
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
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
The formation of the Society of Mezzotint 703 Engravers in 1898 is an example of the leaguing together of particular workers to call attention to their interests.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" by Various
Next, a charge was brought that he had been leaguing with a half-crazy woman called the Nun of Kent, who had said violent things about the King.
From A Book of Golden Deeds by Charlotte Mary Yonge
Once a merchant brought with him a diving apparatus, but the divers were highly indignant, and leaguing against him refused to show the best banks.
From Southern Arabia by Theodore Bent
In the first place, he was on bad terms with Mrs. Oldershaw, which would protect me from all danger of the two leaguing together against me if I trusted him.
From Armadale by Wilkie Collins
Bordeaux had been the centre of a conspiracy for leaguing together the malcontents of la Vendée with those of the South, these again being in touch with the royalists of the Lyonnais and Franche Comté.
From William Pitt and the Great War by John Holland Rose
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