champ
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Could you stack 12 cups in under two seconds to become a European champ?
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
In this corner, the reigning heavyweight champ: a version of every Oscar-baiting, prestige movie you’ve ever seen.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026
Remember: Alcaraz is the defending champ in Queens, having toppled Sinner in four sets last September.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Panettiere gave birth to her daughter, with boxing champ Wladimir Klitschko, in 2014 and battled postpartum depression.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
“Okay, champ, I’m off her tail. Be about a day before the Enquirer has a new team on her.”
From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin
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Palisades 62, Eastvale Roosevelt 56: The City Section Open Division champs advanced to the Division II regional semifinal, knocking off the top-seeded defending state champion Mustangs on the road.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2026
The defending Olympic champs from up north had never taken a bagel in the Games before.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026
Red and green cabbage deserve more love here; they stay crisp, add color and hold onto dressing like champs.
From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2025
Chicago are strangely the most consistent with eight wins in nine, but as they visit the Super Bowl champs on Thanksgiving we'll see just how good they really are.
From BBC ● Nov. 24, 2025
“Paine, you and Donna really lucked out with these youngsters. They’re true champs, both of ’em.”
From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen
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The vampirelike lamprey, sneaking into the Great Lakes in the 19th century, gradually champed its way through the fish population.
From New York Times ● Feb. 29, 2016
Gung-ho Lehman bankers champed at Japanese conservatism and bureaucracy, while Nomura veterans chafed at how much Lehman staff were paid.
From Reuters ● Jul. 24, 2015
At 'Sconset Where once fine horses tossed their manes And champed their oats and hay, Now daily flock the folks with brains, To dine and talk and play.
From Time Magazine Archive
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We skated Wonderland numerous times over several days and all kinds of stuff went down, but Suski straight up champed out with five amazing tricks, all of which were photo-documented in an hour-nutter.
From Time Magazine Archive
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There came a low word of command "Halt!" then a moment of horsey noises—nostrils blowing, hoofs pawing, bits being champed, necks being patted.
From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis
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We know that many states are already champing at the bit to do that.
From Slate ● Apr. 30, 2026
“We’re champing at the bit to get the data,” one FAA official in Washington said at the time, as days stretched on after the crash without a black-box readout.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
“That is what all of the nonprofits are going to be champing at the bit to know,” said Jenni Campbell, executive director of the L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2025
They are champing at the bit to memorialize him, but Fife’s motives in agreeing are not purely about the film.
From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2024
Kyro’s plan had me not run at all for two days, and now I’m champing at the bit.
From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen
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