champ

Could you stack 12 cups in under two seconds to become a European champ?

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

In this corner, the reigning heavyweight champ: a version of every Oscar-baiting, prestige movie you’ve ever seen.

From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026

Remember: Alcaraz is the defending champ in Queens, having toppled Sinner in four sets last September.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Panettiere gave birth to her daughter, with boxing champ Wladimir Klitschko, in 2014 and battled postpartum depression.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026

To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when no one else will.

From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad

Following a pregame ceremony that saw the Seahawks raise their Super Bowl banner at Lumen Field, the game quickly looked like a disaster for the defending champs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

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

“When you’re the two-time defending league champs you take pride in that and you don’t want to give it away.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2026

Big Creek kept winning, and the people in charge of high-school football up in Charleston kept saying it didn’t matter—there was no way we were going to be state champs.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

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

In the inner courtyard of Buckingham Palace eight beautiful horses champed impatiently at their bits.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now,' on his red leather bench, Winston Churchill champed, shuffled a handful of notes, twice rose in a false start before the Speaker gave him the sign.

From Time Magazine Archive

I kept my eyes fixed on Lucy, as did Van Helsing, and we saw a spasm as of rage flit like a shadow over her face; the sharp teeth champed together.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

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

If you started the movie at the end, you wouldn’t be champing to find out what happens next.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 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

Kyro’s plan had me not run at all for two days, and now I’m champing at the bit.

From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen