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medal

[med-l] / ˈmɛd l /


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"We won the bronze medal and it has a golden layer," he said.

From BBC Jul. 18, 2026

You know, 24 major tournament titles, 40 Masters 1000s, a hard-fought gold medal two summers ago in Paris, blah, blah, blah, all that.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 11, 2026

A few settlers in anoraks come out to wave to us from the shore and President Jedlička, communicating via megaphone, presents one of the settlers with an official medal.

From BBC Jul. 10, 2026

At 17, she won a gold medal in speed climbing last week at the USU19 National Championship in Salt Lake City.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 8, 2026

Examining the medal, Bobby whispered to Euwe, “But my name is not on it.”

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

The players were clearly delighted with their bronze medals, collected on a podium in Miami then proudly paraded for the travelling fans.

From BBC Jul. 19, 2026

And on Saturday, she gave out medals to more than 300 American rescue workers and thanked them in an event broadcast on national television.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 9, 2026

In an apparent sign that rescue missions were closing up, interim President Delcy Rodriquez held a ceremony to hand out medals to international teams, including their rescue dogs.

From Barron's Jul. 4, 2026

Mills won five Commonwealth Games medals, including discus gold in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1966.

From BBC Jun. 29, 2026

The pumpkin seeds wore little silver patches, like French medals, and Nokomis blessed them gently as she pushed them into the soft new earth.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich

The dog that almost medaled at the Olympics.

From MarketWatch Feb. 19, 2026

Since becoming an independent country in 2006, Serbia has medaled in every Olympic tournament it has played in, with its last two medals being gold.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 9, 2024

“Obviously it wasn’t my best performances, but at the end of the day, whoever medaled, medaled, and that’s what’s so exciting, because you just never know with gymnastics,” she said.

From Salon Aug. 5, 2024

It wasn’t enough to keep the U.S. from heading home from the World Cup empty-handed, and after 87 years of waiting Canada has again medaled on one of basketball’s biggest stages.

From Washington Times Sep. 10, 2023

In the 2002 Winter Olympic figure-skating competition, a French judge and a Russian judge were caught trying to swap votes to make sure their skaters medaled.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt

I doubt I had ever seen so many uniformed, braided and medalled men under one roof.

From BBC Nov. 6, 2018

And so to the IAAF, now ruled by the World Anti-Doping Agency’s almost comically damning report to have medalled in cheating and corruption.

From The Guardian Jan. 15, 2016

"For Deibold to medal is a testament to how strong our team is, because any of us could have medalled."

From Reuters Feb. 18, 2014

But few athletes were described as having medalled, and none of having podiumed.

From The Guardian Aug. 10, 2012

To-night he has dined well, and his big hand is stroking the Essence of Selfishness who purrs against his medalled chest under a caress as gentle as a woman's.

From A Village of Vagabonds by Smith, F. Berkeley (Frank Berkeley)

With one surgically rebuilt knee and a completely torn ACL in the other, the 41-year-old Vonn gutted her way to the starting gate and had a real chance of medaling before her violent crash.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 14, 2026

After medaling in duets at two world championships, he retired again.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 10, 2024

Olympic and Paralympic Committee does pay Team USA athletes for medaling but not for competing in the Olympics, although they can apply for grants to support their training and travel.

From Slate Aug. 9, 2024

In Tokyo, the Americans’ execution scores on each apparatus were mostly similar to the medaling teams.

From Washington Post Aug. 17, 2022

I jumped right up and finished the event, but I knew I had no chance of medaling now.

From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles

The United States finished with 69 points with Japan scoring 68 and Italy medalling for the first time in the team event with 60.

From Barron's Feb. 8, 2026

So in terms of "medalling" the countries, it has to be bronze to the Netherlands, silver to Jamaica and shiny gold to the Czech Republic.

From The Guardian Aug. 6, 2012

Twitter users have spent days exploiting the Scooby Doo-inspired "we could have got gold if it wasn't for you medalling kids" gag.

From BBC Aug. 6, 2012

"It is rather a dangerous pastime, Mr. Lenoir, this medalling fancy of yours," he said.

From Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks Book Number Fifteen in the Jack Harkaway Series by Hemyng, Bracebridge




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