win
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The overwhelming favorite in Las Vegas to win the championship when the season began, the Lakers finished 33-49 and missed the playoffs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
Paramount hailed the agreement as a "significant win", stating it provides a "direct path to a trial based on the evidence".
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
In a statement, Paramount said “Today’s agreement is a significant win because the result is exactly what we have sought from the outset: a direct path to a trial based on the evidence.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
She was considered the front-runner to win another term until she gave an interview to the Washington Post in which she badmouthed Gov. George Wallace, the man who’d appointed her, and his wife.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026
He believes in a single, immutable truth—either you win, or you lose.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
James averaged 20.9 points, 6.1 rebounds and 7.2 assists last season while adding to his list of NBA records, setting marks for games played, all-time wins and field goals made.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
He retires with seven wins, three seconds and three thirds from 14 starts, with earnings of $4,770,755.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
At Regeneron, Yancopoulos’s biggest wins have come from being years ahead of everyone else.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
He instigates them, and pedantically reminds her of the rules, but his surprise and irritation become conflagrations of rage as Fonsia wins hand after hand, remaining placid and mildly abashed at her luck.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
There would be other parties to celebrate other wins in the years to come, but none would ever feel as intense to me as that first Worlds Party.
From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles
What I wants to know is as this; I winned my case—” “Quite so,” said Prigg.
From The Humourous Story of Farmer Bumpkin's Lawsuit by Harris, Richard
Glad to hear tell as your greyhound winned the cup down to Newton coursing.”
From Children of the Mist by Phillpotts, Eden
Ay, sir, but he winned the game, an' that's aye a loss for Geordie; he aye tak's himsel' to the tavern when he wins.
From St. Cuthbert's by Knowles, Robert E.
If I winned I was goin' to buy Delaney's café.
From Heart of the West [Annotated] by Loewenstein, Joseph E.
Yes, suh, I winned; w'y, at de finish I come down dat track lak hit was de Jedgment Day an' I was de las' one up!
From The heart of happy hollow A collection of stories by Dunbar, Paul Laurence
He spotted the field several lengths but rallied to capture the 1 1/16-mile race for his first victory in five starts since winning the Haskell Stakes last July at Monmouth Park.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
Yet many of these widows, daughters, and other female successors were also savvy political operators, leaving behind genuine legislative legacies or winning office in their own right.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026
Across the past two Premier League seasons, Lacroix recorded the best success rate in one-on-one defensive situations among players to face at least 50 such duels, winning possession 50.5% of the time.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
NEW DELHI—The leaders of India’s “Cockroach” protests said their supporters wouldn’t retreat even after an activist who galvanized the large-scale demonstrations ended a hunger strike on Friday after winning concessions from the government.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Bobby pondered for a long while and, with no apparent winning chances left, reluctantly agreed.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
Duncan Scott and Tom Dean have won together.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
But Caraway easily won the special election that followed, becoming the first woman elected to the Senate.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026
James, the NBA all-time scoring leader and a four-time NBA Most Valuable Player, has won four titles in a 23-year career, most recently with the Los Angeles Lakers.
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
In travel news this week, JetBlue won the contest to replace Spirit Airlines at New York’s LaGuardia Airport.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
I haven’t seen Violet that excited since she won the spelling bee.
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
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