triumph
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The JSerra Girls Flag Football team stretched its season-opening winning streak to eight straight games with a resounding 41-6 triumph over the Edison Chargers in a nonleague battle on Thursday at JSerra Catholic High School.
From Los Angeles Times β Aug. 22, 2026
That would leave Matty Cash, Pau Torres, Victor Lindelof, John McGinn and Emi Buendia as those who remain from the 11 that started in their Istanbul triumph.
From BBC β Aug. 21, 2026
He’s been silent amid rampant speculation that Mr. Walter will also sell the Dodgers as the team steamrolls to a possible third consecutive World Series triumph.
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 21, 2026
Whaley rounded off his win with a superb left-to-right putt for birdie at 15 to become the first English amateur to triumph in the US Amateur since Matt Fitzpatrick in 2013.
From BBC β Aug. 16, 2026
When I could see out again, there at the far end of the room, Lady Augusta Drear held up a page of cream-laid paper in awful triumph.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
Davis’s public triumphs as a Heisman winner, All-American and the No. 1 pick in the 1962 National Football League draft stand beside Owens’s as proof that talent and character transcend bigotry.
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 11, 2026
"I'm so grateful that I am able to share my triumphs, most especially my recent run at Wimbledon, with the country," Eala said at the reception.
From BBC β Jul. 25, 2026
One of Odysseus’ defining triumphs becomes, in Nolan’s telling, something closer to an original sin.
From Los Angeles Times β Jul. 21, 2026
A Ballon d'Or, one European title, one Nations League, four Premier League trophies, one Champions League and numerous other domestic triumphs.
From BBC β Jul. 20, 2026
“What is most important? My magic or my music? My triumphs or my follies?”
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
For the team that triumphed in 2010, only three of the starting XI had not been at the 2008 Euros.
From BBC β Jul. 17, 2026
Mexico lost to England 3-2 in the World Cup Sunday night, yet thousands of Mexican Americans across Southern California took to the streets as if their team had triumphed.
From Los Angeles Times β Jul. 6, 2026
Canada has form in Eurovision: appearing for Switzerland, Canadian then-starlet Celine Dion triumphed in 1988 singing "Ne partez pas sans moi", launching her career internationally.
From Barron's β Jul. 1, 2026
And after Paraguay triumphed 4-3 on penalties following the 1-1 draw, Germany head coach Julian Nagelsmann was left fuming at the disallowed goal.
From BBC β Jun. 30, 2026
With friends like these, he would triumph, as El Patron had triumphed over poverty and death so long ago.
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
After helping the Blues win the Treble in 2023 then triumphing at the Euros with Spain a year later, an anterior cruciate ligament injury derailed Rodri's dominance somewhat.
From BBC β Aug. 13, 2026
The Knicks ended up triumphing 130-93, a victory that sent the team to the NBA finals for the first time in 27 years.
From MarketWatch β Jun. 2, 2026
This kind of narrowing of the acceptable realm of conversation may have briefly led to a feeling that once marginalized groups were triumphing.
From Slate β Mar. 31, 2026
Her women aren’t triumphing so much as sidestepping death, and forced to live with their choices’ aftereffects for years to come.
From Los Angeles Times β Feb. 26, 2026
In the middle of the glade, on the chief tree, there hung an enormous copper basin, triumphing over the beaten shields.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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