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football

noun as in a sport

noun as in the ball used in football

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As the basketball season for other Division I colleges staggers toward its conclusion and lower-division schools begin spring football campaigns, some college coaches and players fear the Ivy League will skip spring sports entirely.

It’s a level of success that just doesn’t seem replicable, however much he owes to the fact that GM Jason Licht and head coach Bruce Arians built one of the most complete teams in football.

He was far more concerned with football, his no-distraction reputation going back to his first head coaching stint in Cleveland.

So if we can get our heads around that like we’ve done in football, football will fix itself.

They took away the sidelines, and they did a good job of rallying to the football and making tackles.

The clichés about football-obsessed husbands and frustrated wives are pretty heavy-handed.

The Dallas Cowboys sell out their state-of-the art football stadium.

His accuser was smeared and demeaned, and a star football player was allowed to keep on playing.

Army B-squad players who fail to make it onto the varsity team after a year or two usually quit football.

I watch football, basketball, and hockey on TV and sometimes “The Bass Pros” on Outdoor Channel.

In his football days the "fighting face" of the Indian star had often appeared on sporting pages.

Under the heat of the exercise during the football game the victim's body generated the gas which he inhaled.

For weeks before it the children practiced racing, and trained themselves in jumping, football, quoiting and such sports.

Football would, be better, if it had been the right time of the year, and we had grass to play on; now it might create suspicion.

Football shall be played with a light india-rubber globe, and "pushing" shall be strictly forbidden.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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