striker
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The Manchester City striker has won the Premier League's Golden Boot in three of his four seasons in English football.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
The Sweden striker finally clinched his British record transfer move to Liverpool on transfer deadline day after weeks of Newcastle United insisting he was not for sale.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
John Murray: Madjo is a teenage striker Aston Villa fans will know all about already after the goals he has scored for them in pre-season.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
The bout was billed as a classic grappler versus striker match-up, with Makhachev's signature wrestling providing the backbone for his dominant run in the UFC.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
Thinking that she needed her best athletes up front if she hoped to stay in the game, Luma moved Kanue from keeper to striker.
From "Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference" by Warren St. John
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During the day, hunger strikers lie on mattresses under tarpaulins, with portraits of BR Ambedkar and freedom fighters behind them.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
Earlier this summer, large crowds of protestors converged on Delaney Hall in support of the hunger strikers.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026
Father Clement Thibault, Babs’s priest-mentor since childhood, is defrocked for publicly supporting the strikers after the church hierarchy forbade him from taking sides; the priest then begins a separate campaign to expose ecclesiastical misbehavior.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
There are countless tales of prolific academy strikers who never make the top level in senior football.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Still, the strikers held out for two years, while a national boycott of Marx & Haas Clothing pressured the company to sign a contract with the union for improved pay and working conditions.
From "Fannie Never Flinched" by Mary Cronk Farrell
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