win
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Likability is nice, but it won’t win a ring.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Both played 25 minutes, with Doncic finishing with 23 points on six-for-16 shooting during the Lakers’ 114-110 win over the Kings at Crypto.com Arena.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
Which means for the 17th straight season, the Yankees won’t win a World Series title.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Pep Guardiola's 4-2-4 was a masterful defensive tactic that resulted in Manchester City's Carabao Cup win against Arsenal in last season's final.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
He’d let us play as many games as we wanted, and then if we still didn’t get the prize we were after, he’d play the game to win it for us.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
Philadelphia’s two wins have been by a combined six points over teams that are a combined 1-7.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
Saints, who face local rivals Portsmouth this weekend, are 13th in the Championship this season with four wins from their eight matches so far.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
Not long ago, CEOs and other senior leaders got these awards only occasionally, often as an incentive to retain favored executives or reward them for unexpected wins.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
Chisora has 36 wins in 50 fights and defended his decision to continue fighting.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
This would be my first year in the coveted starting lineup on the varsity team, and I was really looking forward to contributing tangible wins for the team.
From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad
Why, whut you spec' I's doin' hyeah ef I hadn' winned?
From The heart of happy hollow A collection of stories by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Hyeah he stan' all weary, but he winned his fight wid sin.
From The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar by William Dean Howells
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 Robert E. Knowles
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 Paul Laurence Dunbar
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 Richard Harris
She describes winning the European championship two years running as a "massive achievement".
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
The Yankees have now gone 17 consecutive seasons without winning the World Series.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Cleveland is gaining confidence after winning three consecutive close games with strong fourth quarters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
Since winning Gladiators he has become involved in various charities, including raising awareness for kinship charities, external.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
“Yes, yes, we should talk about winning before it’s too late,” Mira said.
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Labour has won the Holborn and St Pancras by-election, seeing off a challenge from Green Party leader Zack Polanski.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
Anne Carson, the Canadian poet, essayist, professor of classics and translator, has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in literature.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
He won election with 51% of the vote in March, avoiding a runoff against other candidates in the second round.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Seventeen years have passed since the Yankees last won the World Series, an eternity on the corner of East 161st Street and River Avenue.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
They had a staring contest then that nobody won.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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