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The first shock was the crumbling of the defending champ Pauline Ferrand-Prevot, who showed early signs that she wasn’t her expected top form, and then withered sadly in a time-trial stage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

“Avery Truesdale was a gifted baseball player who hit the walk off run for conference champ Arcadia in Logan’s freshman year,” she wrote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026

The U.S. national champ Quinn Simmons looks ready to win a stage and a mustache contest.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

Some have interpreted this as the defining moment when A.I. surpassed human prowess in math, akin to the moment in 1997 when IBM’s Deep Blue took down chess champ Garry Kasparov.

From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2026

Naano doesn’t like bending to the ground anymore, which is why I can’t imagine her being a Hula-Hoop champ of any kind.

From "Zara’s Rules for Record-Breaking Fun" by Hena Khan

"I've never done a home champs before so to have the crowd shout 'Abbie Donnelly' was an incredible experience."

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 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

The defending Super Bowl champs may be 8-3, still in charge atop the NFC East, all but surely playoff bound.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 24, 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

What the coach didn’t say was that if we won and got into the Tournament of Champions the first team we would have to face was Carver, the defending champs.

From "Slam!" by Walter Dean Myers

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

Now,' on his red leather bench, Winston Churchill champed, shuffled a handful of notes, twice rose in a false start before the Speaker gave him the sign.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

“He’s champing at the bit, so that’s a good thing. He’s very anxious to get back out here and help his team.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 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