name of the game

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Now, its new chief executive said, the name of the game is volume sales—and affordability.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

“Restoration is the name of the game, not intrusion,” Mike told me, and he wasn’t talking just about the estuary.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2026

Patience was the name of the game for England after Ben Duckett and Rehan Ahmed lost theirs, but Root produced a masterclass in it.

From BBC • Jan. 27, 2026

Flexibility is the name of the game, second only to talent.

From Salon • Jan. 24, 2026

They had enough food—scavenged from the ruins, hunted in the woods, brought up from Asheville sometimes—but rationing was the name of the game, and everyone looked like they were one meal a day short.

From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner