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basketball

[bas-kit-bawl, bah-skit-] / ˈbæs kɪtˌbɔl, ˈbɑ skɪt- /
NOUN
team sport
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All seven Australians in the NFL converted from rugby, basketball or Australian rules football, and Australia has a huge pool of similar athletes with transferable skills.

From BBC Sep. 10, 2026

The sprawling property has everything from standard rooms to stand-alone lake houses, plus indoor and outdoor pools, lawn games, basketball and pickleball courts.

From Salon Sep. 8, 2026

Since buying the Dodgers, he has invested in European soccer, women’s hockey and basketball, squash and auto racing.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 5, 2026

The league delivers a devastating blow to Los Angeles’s B-side basketball franchise.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 5, 2026

If this day weren’t terrible enough already, I can’t stop thinking about how the first basketball game of the McNulty season is this afternoon.

From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko

At 10:30 a.m., the bell rings through the halls of William F. Prisk Elementary School in Long Beach, sending students racing onto the playground, throwing basketballs, doing cartwheels, gliding down slides.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 18, 2026

Specs can digitize a chess board, provide AR-guided training for shooting basketballs and even highlight the coolant reservoir under the hood of a car, according to videos and photos online.

From MarketWatch Jun. 17, 2026

She has seen the video evidence of the two of them, both still in kindergarten, launching basketballs over their heads at the backboard.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 14, 2025

There I was, dribbling basketballs like a Globetrotter, diving through inter-dimensional portals, riding on the back of a galloping dinosaur in an explosive train heist.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 10, 2025

Some seemed as small as fireflies, others as large as basketballs.

From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins



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