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score

[skawr, skohr] / skɔr, skoʊr /


NOUN
musical arrangement
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He also ran for a three-yard score and was subbed out midway through the fourth quarter with his team comfortably ahead.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2026

After his round, McIlroy told reporters that he had "made peace" with the circumstances around the two-shot penalty he had incurred on Thursday and felt free to go out and post a good score.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

When his fans heeded Cook’s call to buy his 2005 live album, “Retaliation,” they made him the first comedian to score a Top 5 release on the Billboard albums chart since Steve Martin in 1978.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

Diplomatically, you didn’t really score any points by outlining all the ways you would like to spend his inheritance.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2026

No matter how hard they tried, neither team could score another run.

From "The Missing Mitt (The Hardy Boys: Secret Files, #2)" by Franklin W. Dixon

So much for freedom from concession of soft scores.

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026

Bloomin’ Brands Chief Executive Mike Spanos said he is encouraged by continued progress on Outback Steakhouse’s turnaround, pointing to five consecutive quarters of year-over-year improvement in guest scores.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

Participants evaluated using traditional risk scores received recommendations to start statin therapy more than three times as often as those whose decisions were guided by coronary calcium measurements.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026

If everyone’s a critic, then no one is, and that’s precisely why monitoring Rotten Tomatoes scores like they’re poll numbers is futile and ridiculous.

From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2026

“I don’t think sending scores of people out onto a lake in paper boats screams of brilliance,” Zara says.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

Arsenal have not scored more than twice in the league since the opening day of the season, when they put three past Coventry.

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026

Making a point by scoring more points to start a season — 361 in nine games — than anyone since Wilt Chamberlain scored 472 in 1962.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2026

With Samoa's resistance gradually waning, Waaka capped a fine individual display with her hat-trick and McGregor scored the try her performance richly deserved to round off a fine New Zealand display.

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026

The 0-7 Chargers, who haven’t scored a touchdown since Oct.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2026

We’d won the game, three goals to two, and I’d scored all three.

From "Facing the Lion" by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton and Herman Viola

But that didn’t lead to consistent scoring, as the team has surpassed 17 points in a game just once this season.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2026

Doncic’s 53-point outburst eclipsed Wembanyama’s 52 points the star center scored Wednesday for the highest single-game scoring performance so far this season.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2026

Was he ashen-faced - or Ashman-faced - at the space Scotland were finding and the tries they were scoring?

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026

It was not just Dewsbury-Hall who caught the eye against Coventry, with Thierno Barry scoring twice in the space of five minutes at the start of the second half to help Everton come from behind.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

Brandon was a decent opponent but I still bested him, scoring the final winning point.

From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad


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