snooker
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Barry is the founder and president of Matchroom Sport, one of the leading promoters in boxing, darts and snooker, while his son Eddie is chairman of the organisation.
From Barron's ● May 15, 2026
Wu, who uses a translator in his news conferences, shared a bed with his father in a windowless flat in the Steel City as he tried to carve out a career in professional snooker.
From BBC ● May 5, 2026
Zhao's victory 12 months ago was regarded as a seismic moment for Chinese snooker.
From BBC ● May 5, 2026
A golden period for snooker - but are UK clubs returning from doldrums?
From BBC ● May 1, 2026
In the early afternoon he took a bus to Watsonville and played three games of snooker with a friend who came to meet him in answer to a phone call.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
The Scots, crippled by a deadly combo of profligacy and self destruction, needed snookers.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
With three episodes left, it seems odd that the writers devised a tale in which Saul snookers a mall cop with an oversized pastry.
From New York Times ● Jul. 25, 2022
Liverpool needed snookers to get back into the title race and Spurs have just provided them with one.
From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2022
An opening nine of 40 – McIlroy whacked his tee shot out of bounds at the 9th – meant he required snookers to win.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 8, 2020
Brooks Koepka’s dropped shot at the last meant he slipped back to five under and the position of needing snookers.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 22, 2017
“The assertion that the U.S. Attorney’s Office was snookered by the Department of the Interior is not fooling anybody,” Eisen said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
“Attorney Baldwin did nothing wrong. He was snookered and abused,” Hennessy said in the memorandum.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 19, 2023
This flavor of whining, however, is doubly sinister, because it's a member of the DOJ leveraging his status to discredit the jury system, simply because these two juries wouldn't be snookered by him.
From Salon ● May 19, 2023
“When you find out who the murderer is and begin leafing through the pages, looking for missed clues,” Tina Jordan recently commented in The Times, “you’ll realize just how completely Christie snookered you.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 2022
“Okay, so the authorities are being snookered by these hidden messages. But how could they resist the facts? Show them your Receiver gizmo, Mr. Benedict. They’ll have to believe you.”
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
Leading 5-2, Murphy knocked in 15 reds and 15 blacks to reach 120 with only the colours remaining but ended up snookering himself behind the blue and the chance was lost.
From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2025
But the crypto implosion at least has a cleansing benefit: It offers an opportunity to mop up a speculative and overhyped mess that has gotten badly out of control, snookering gullible investors in the process.
From Washington Post ● May 20, 2022
David Hampton posed as the son of Sidney Poitier, snookering high-caste Manhattan.
From New York Times ● Sep. 17, 2011
But in seeking position on the green he needed to take the white around the table but lost position, snookering himself.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 17, 2010
But, as in any case of cloak-and-dagger, it's sometimes hard to tell exactly who's snookering whom.
From Time Magazine Archive
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