pip
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Hamilton benefited from that by leaving his run late and benefiting from the usual improvement in track conditions through qualifying to pip Leclerc by 0.064secs.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 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
Watchers on Saturday spotted what appeared to be a pip in the second egg.
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
Villa pulled off a real coup when they pipped Newcastle to Freiburg's 20-year-old midfielder Johan Manzambi, who was a stand-out performer for Switzerland at the World Cup.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
Recent Glastonbury headliner Rodrigo pipped Ed Sheeran's = and Taylor Swift's Folklore to the top spot.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
Ferrari's Lewis Hamilton pipped Mercedes' Kimi Antonelli to a stunning pole position for the sprint race at the British Grand Prix.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 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
I felt that when I pipped that mouflon.
From The Vanity Girl by Compton MacKenzie
It was a huge coup for the Hammers, pipping the world's best clubs to add 22-year-olds Carlos Tevez and Javier Mascherano to Alan Pardew's squad.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Having taken five years out from the sport before returning during the Covid-19 pandemic, she took 1500m bronze at the Paris Olympics before pipping Hodgkinson to silver at last year's World Championships in the 800m.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
The margin of the victory was key, with England pipping Germany to top spot on goal difference and the only automatic spot.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 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
Oh, Lucina, 'twill be ripping When we hear the eggs all pipping!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, February 7, 1917 by Various
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