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sport

[spawrt] / spɔrt /




VERB
display, wear
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No other sport has that many exhibition games before the season.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026

As much as anything, Ditka was the physical embodiment of a brutal sport.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

So he’s not only talking about the blood sport of bullfighting or the endless fallouts from the partying.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

"A bit confused why the sport keeps doing different things depending on who is out in Q1 or who is out in lap one."

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

Bicycle road-racing was the only sport in the world, he said.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

It was removed from a sports photography festival in the northern French town of Deauville before a court ordered it reinstated.

From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026

See: Wall Street wants to turn sports betting into ETFs.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 10, 2026

His involvement with the NFL expanded off the green as he explored TV commentating, even earning Sports Emmy nominations for outstanding sports personality in 1994 and 1996.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

Prediction markets allow users to bet on everything from sports to world events.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

I’d appeared as a feature on the ten o’clock news the night before, the little human-interest story they do between the weather and sports.

From "Lawn Boy Returns" by Gary Paulsen

OpenAI founder Sam Altman is also a watch guy, whose wrist has sported styles including a roughly $650,000 piece from another Swiss maker, Greubel Forsey.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

Yet he noted that some investors have been disappointed by the level of growth sported by ServiceNow and other enterprise software companies, especially relative to the “hockey-stick growth” of other companies in the AI ecosystem.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026

Dressed in svelte black athleisure with a close-cropped haircut, the 28-year-old Lacy was less flamboyant than he’d looked in recent years, when he sported long braids and sunglasses that covered half his head.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

A black leather jacket sported by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang sold for $960,000 at a New York auction on Friday, 16 times higher than the estimated value of $60,000, according to Sotheby's.

From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026

He sported a gold incisor and had an easy laugh.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

The 32-year-old also made history by becoming the first musician to perform entirely in Spanish at the sporting event, normally the most-watched each year on US TV.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

The expanded definition would encompass event contracts on sporting, political, cultural and weather-related events.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

It’s also sporting a growth story that stands out on Wall Street.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

Angel City sporting director Mark Parsons is taking his time searching for a new coach in a strategy that could jeopardize the team’s playoff chances.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

A billboard of Jackie, Jermaine, Tito, Marlon, and Michael sporting big applejack caps over their even bigger Afros.

From "P.S. Be Eleven" by Rita Williams-Garcia




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