league
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The host Patriots hadn’t lost a league game since 2017 and had beaten Cleveland 13 consecutive times, by an average score of 40-8.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
Adams is tied for the league lead with nine catches of 15 yards or more.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
It has been 71 years since Warrington last won a league title and it is their first trip to Old Trafford for eight years.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
Since 2020, there have been 52 head-coaching changes—with roughly a quarter of the league hiring someone new each offseason.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
I am really out of my league in this conversation.
From "The Sky at Our Feet" by Nadia Hashimi
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
Presently we find him warring against nobles of Maine who had taken William’s part, and leaguing with the Bretons against William himself.
From William the Conqueror by Edward Augustus Freeman
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
The godlike wish of genius, man to bless, With rank and wealth still leaguing to oppress!
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 by Various
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
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
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