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And like the Europa League, the top eight progress to the last 16, while teams finishing between ninth and 24th enter the play-offs.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
Steven Kwan hit a tying double in the ninth inning, Travis Bazzana had a sacrifice fly and the Guardians beat the Angels.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
Raymond Lewis was in the ninth grade in Clarksdale, Miss., when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
It was the ninth similar incident since the start of 2024.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
Tonight, on my ninth birthday, I wanted to go to my room and explore my globe.
From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals
Jagged with octave jumps, hard-to-land-on intervals of sevenths and ninths, and grinding dissonances, his high-tensioned 70-minute song cycle was even more difficult to sing than to listen to.
From Time Magazine Archive
Other than wins, Sofia has had a third, two fifths and two ninths.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sofia has had three first place wins, a third, two fifths and two ninths.
From Time Magazine Archive
And next he filled up the intervals of a fourth with ninths, leaving a remnant which is in the ratio of 256:243.
From Timaeus by Benjamin Jowett
So, Fifths, sixths, sevenths, eighths, ninths, tenths, &c.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
