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He briefly turned emotional when the crowd tried to rally behind a four-time Open champ who’s so obviously battling his tennis mortality.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

The childhood sports idols for my generation of cousins were Dodgers pitcher Fernando Valenzuela and boxing champ Julio César Chávez, not Mexican soccer legends Hugo Sánchez and Jorge Campos.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026

Some have interpreted this as the defining moment when A.I. surpassed human prowess in math, akin to the moment in 1997 when IBM’s Deep Blue took down chess champ Garry Kasparov.

From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2026

With defending champ Carlos Alcaraz back in Spain, staring at his sore, slowly-rehabilating wrist, the tennis world presumed his Italian rival, Jannik Sinner, would have a breezy Vespa ride to the title at Roland-Garros.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026

"Show us how a real champ performs the Heimlich maneuver."

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

The only other times they reached the Edison final was in 2015 when they won the Division 1 title and 2008 when they were undefeated state champs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026

"Excitement, fatigue - everything. But this is the best moment of the season. We are still champs, two in a row, it's amazing."

From BBC ● May 30, 2026

The defending Olympic champs from up north had never taken a bagel in the Games before.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026

Red and green cabbage deserve more love here; they stay crisp, add color and hold onto dressing like champs.

From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2025

They didn’t know they were dealing with the reigning champs of the Maryvale College sports day.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah

The vampirelike lamprey, sneaking into the Great Lakes in the 19th century, gradually champed its way through the fish population.

From New York Times ● Feb. 29, 2016

Gung-ho Lehman bankers champed at Japanese conservatism and bureaucracy, while Nomura veterans chafed at how much Lehman staff were paid.

From Reuters ● Jul. 24, 2015

The eight superb, matched horses champed their eight matched bits.

From Time Magazine Archive

As the favorites champed at the barrier, New York's Mayor Bill O'Dwyer rushed up with another dark horse: an international skyscraper city to be built in the midst of Manhattan.

From Time Magazine Archive

There came a low word of command "Halt!" then a moment of horsey noises—nostrils blowing, hoofs pawing, bits being champed, necks being patted.

From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis

We know that many states are already champing at the bit to do that.

From Slate ● Apr. 30, 2026

“We’re champing at the bit to get the data,” one FAA official in Washington said at the time, as days stretched on after the crash without a black-box readout.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025

“While Meta has a head start on AI glasses, competition is champing at the bit,” wrote Mike Proulx, a vice president and research director at Forrester in a blog post about Meta’s AI-powered glasses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2025

They are champing at the bit to memorialize him, but Fife’s motives in agreeing are not purely about the film.

From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2024

If you find your- self using this expression over and over again, you have a myopic imagination. champing at the bit.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner