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His Real Madrid team-mate Mbappe - with 12 - is the only European player to have scored more than nine goals in a major tournament before the age of 24.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
A top spokesperson for Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass left her administration Monday after a brief tenure, joining a growing list of communications aides who have departed over the last nine months.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
"I think so because we've a had a lot of good golfers over the years," the world number nine told BBC Sport.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
They have competed without Plum, their top scorer, for 12 games and former No. 2 overall pick Brink during the past nine contests.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
I passed the village square and approached the mill, where the miller stood outside with his nine sons and Opal.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
In early June, hundreds of fans dressed to the nines were in attendance at a rock star’s sold-out show at New York’s Beacon Theatre.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2026
Four nines means 99.99% of uptime—a typical percentage that a software company commits to customers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026
Angela said she "loved" her outdoor class, because in traditional academic settings, while some of her friends are getting grade eights or nines, she will be "struggling getting threes".
From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2026
I brought them out to the Grove and we filled it up with them and they dressed to the nines.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2025
We didn’t want to skew the graph with new data, and so didn’t mention that Desdemona was actually seventy-one, not ninety-one, and that she always confused sevens with nines.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
