- present tense form of match (3rd person singular).
matches
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Arthur Stickland, who has been on the committee at Bramshaw Cricket Club for 60 years, said the That's Life! team played annual matches against the village side for about seven or eight years.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
For a long time, it was considered normal for children of all ages to play 11 versus 11 matches on full-sized pitches, but in 1999 the FA introduced "mini-soccer" for under-10s.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
Maresca has previously said Semenyo can be used "as a nine" but that plan is no longer available with the Ghanaian facing the prospect of missing up to 13 matches.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
Unlike other schools, Mission College does not have its own tennis courts and rents courts at a nearby park to practice and play its home matches.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2026
But Karpov had qualified to play Bobby by winning his three Candidates matches, during which he’d played forty-six grueling games and only lost three.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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