rank
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Woman grandmaster is the highest woman only title a female player can attain and the rank is held for life.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
As the memory crunch deepened, its rank rose to sixth in last year’s fourth quarter, then third over the first half of this year.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 27, 2026
The Dodgers rank second in the majors in OPS.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
Polls show a majority of Greenlanders rank the stagnant economy among their main concerns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
Dark and rank, and too tight for two people who don’t want to be there.
From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers
Scotland, with their energy and urgency, had reduced them to the ranks of the lifeless.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
Maine consistently ranks among the highest in the country for voter turnout, even among young voters, despite having one of the oldest populations in the country.
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026
The hiring of Kreiz reflects Ellison’s willingness to look beyond the existing ranks of Paramount and Warner as he builds the leadership team for the combined company.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
Like the Signum model, JPMorgan then ranks the data relative to their own history, in what’s called Z scores.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
The armed ranks of the horde were formed up in the ditch.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
Nielsen, which releases a weekly ratings ranker for streaming content, also uses hours watched to rank programs.
From New York Times ● Nov. 16, 2021
News, the magazine that has already established itself as the most noticed ranker of the nation’s colleges and universities.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 13, 2017
“Because I intend on making one that’s a whole lot ranker than we’ve had before.”
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 1, 2014
But Holles' ranker speech is rich and authentic.
From Time Magazine Archive
He would be called in England a "ranker."
From Impressions of a War Correspondent by George Lynch
"Every time we accelerated on the highway, whale juice would pour into the windows of the car, and it was the rankest thing on the planet," Ms Kennedy told the magazine.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2024
The feminist with a fundamentally optimistic vision, who believed that people, especially men, could be better, might be soon replaced by the rankest misogynist.
From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2020
The rankest compound of villainous smell that ever offended nostril.
From Washington Post ● May 10, 2018
For the F.A., claiming to be the world’s policeman while turning a blind eye to apparent offenses at home would have been the rankest hypocrisy.
From New York Times ● Sep. 27, 2016
Hedgerows and verges were at their rankest and thickest.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
In the most recent report, nearly 80 percent of companies ranked trade policy changes among the four top threats, alongside weakness in the US economy, an external or "black swan" event, and poor vehicle sales.
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
"To be honest I was a little bit surprised but if you see the rankings, the girls ranked higher than me have either a fight booked or they have just fought," said Cong.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
“This represents one of the largest movements in recent survey rounds and moves AI-related risks from a relatively lower ranked concern to the third most cited risk,” the BOE said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
The temblor ranked weak to light on the Modified Mercalli Intensity scale.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026
We also got to meet Simone Manuel, Michael Phelps, and Katie Ledecky from the US swimming team, and Novak Djokovic, the Serbian tennis player currently ranked number one in the world.
From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles
USC beats four early-season patsies to boost their stats and gain a No. 12 ranking, all the while their defense stinks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
Mensah is completing 89.9% of his passes through his first three games, leading the country and helping lift Miami to a No. 6 ranking.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
“If that’s what we care about, I see why they would be interested in ranking schools based on labor-market outcomes.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
This season's out-of-possession stats would appear to back it up too, with the Red Devils ranking 16th for distance covered, and 17th for total number of sprints.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
Because of my twelfth place win in Tunisia and my earlier gold medal finishes in the domestic tournaments, my national ranking had improved significantly.
From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad
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