pip
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If they are to pip European champions Spain to the crown, they will need Lionel Messi to be at his best.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
They succeeded occasionally—Liverpool managed to pip him to a couple of championships—but Guardiola’s City took the title in six of the past eight years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
Observers spotted what appeared to be a pip — or breach in the eggshell — on Friday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2026
His seventh-place finish, with Webber in eighth, allowed Vettel to pip both of them.
From BBC ● Dec. 1, 2025
His foreman was a man defeated by his own pessimistic views, and his news was mostly a series of misfortunes: the strawberries froze, the chickens caught the pip, the grapes rotted.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
He was pipped to Olympic gold in Paris two years ago.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
Recent Glastonbury headliner Rodrigo pipped Ed Sheeran's = and Taylor Swift's Folklore to the top spot.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
Until this year, the tightest margin of victory belonged to Al Unser, Jr., who pipped Scott Goodyear to the line by 0.043 seconds in 1992.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 25, 2026
If the Gunners have been pipped to the title then I think it will be too much to pick themselves up again after such a disappointment.
From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2026
Why, the beautiful white eggshell he hatched out of was dirty when he pipped it, and never in all his growing-up days did he see his mother or father really clean house.
From Bird Stories by Sim, Robert J.
Russell ended a run of three successive pole positions for team-mate Antonelli by pipping him in Montreal.
From BBC ● May 23, 2026
Johnson had never claimed a podium spot in Cortina before Sunday but outshone the rest of the field from sixth on the starting list, pipping Germany's rising star Emma Aicher by just 0.04sec.
From Barron's ● Feb. 8, 2026
Last year English post-punk band English Teacher won with their debut album "This Could Be Texas", pipping favourite Charli XCX.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2025
That also applies to the Livingston native herself, thanks to her becoming Scotland's new UK 1500m champion after pipping Olympic silver medallist Laura Muir to the title in Birmingham.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2025
I remember her saying to me once, in her school-girl slang, when she was seventeen or so, 'Well, I'd like to think I went on, mother; I think it's simply rotten pipping out.
From Potterism A Tragi-Farcical Tract by Macaulay, Rose, Dame
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