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game

[geym] / geɪm /






NOUN
individual sporting event
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NOUN
undomesticated animals chased for food
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Rockstar acknowledged players had been waiting for it to address the leaked footage, and said it was "unfortunate the intended game experience may now be impacted by some spoilers".

From BBC Aug. 26, 2026

Someone’s always trying to game the system, to exploit a loophole.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 26, 2026

You can only do so much to time your retirement, and trying to time the market itself is a fool’s game.

From MarketWatch Aug. 26, 2026

The winner of this game could be headed to a long winning streak.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 26, 2026

Is that real or is it just part of the game?

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

The proportion of Gen Z adults who identified as “die-hard” sports fans who regularly watch full games, according to a recent survey.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 26, 2026

He performed voice roles for video games including television and film tie-ins “Brutal Legend” and “Dragon Age: Origins.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 26, 2026

Gen. Rob Bonta accuses studio of ‘playing games.’

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 25, 2026

Some games have been cancelled while the incidents are investigated.

From BBC Aug. 25, 2026

No more grooming-nibbles in the morning; no more uproarious games of hide and hunt… Torak bit his knuckle, fighting his fear.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

Mike Demopoulos, a 40-year-old gamer in Minnesota who works in web hosting and has a Pac-Man tattoo, subscribed to SuperPower soon after reading about the clean-energy initiative.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 30, 2026

GameStop said Thursday that one gamer in Columbus, Ohio, visited one of its locations to trade in some of his old physical games for store credit.

From MarketWatch Jul. 2, 2026

"My initial reaction was one of confusion and shock," Ben, a UK-based 24-year-old gamer who covers GTA news on social media, told me following the announcement.

From BBC Jun. 26, 2026

A venue in Rotterdam turned itself over to fantasy dress-up and gamer fanaticism on the weekend, with thousands attending TwitchCon Europe.

From Barron's May 30, 2026

With that and the day being kind of drizzly, nobody is out there except two gamer kids sitting on their raincoats stealthily playing Switch with their backs against the wall where teachers can’t see them.

From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell

“He was one of the coolest, neatest, kindest, gamest horses I’ll ever have. When I saw him in there, my heart sank.”

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 18, 2017

Lots of good intentions and the gamest efforts of able leading actors, respectively Gary Oldman and Ed Harris, could not breathe life into those turkeys.

From Slate Jul. 27, 2010

Little Old Man Ledoux, gamest of the game.

From Time Magazine Archive

Jesse Livermore, a friend from pre-War days in Chicago, Broker Block has called "the gamest and cleverest trader alive."

From Time Magazine Archive

So far as we could make out afterwards the fight with my 'lunge lasted half an hour, and it was fighting, too, all the while in the gamest fashion.

From Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler by William Senior

Here I thought he might have considered multiple courses of action, weighed pros and cons, gamed out costs and benefits.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 6, 2026

But under a "worst-case scenario" gamed out by Eurasia Group, damage to Iran's oilfields permanently hits the country's exports, while the precarity to Hormuz traffic persists.

From Barron's Mar. 2, 2026

However, SEC rules governing derivative-linked volatility could probably be gamed to a certain extent, he said.

From MarketWatch Oct. 23, 2025

I am playing a gamed called “Election Day” at Appleseed Avenue, a relatively new escape room in a multi-story strip mall in Newhall.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 14, 2025

Upon their return from Las Vegas, they set out to pester the rating agencies, and the Wall Street people who gamed their models, for more information.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

For the first time in the history of gaming, consoles across the board have seen price hikes years after they came out.

From BBC Aug. 26, 2026

Xbox chief executive Asha Sharma says the gaming giant needs to be "thinking about" affordability for its next-generation console, amid a "crisis" in computing prices.

From BBC Aug. 26, 2026

Electronic Arts, the gaming company known for franchises such as “The Sims” and “Battlefield,” has been acquired by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, Silver Lake and Affinity Partners for $55 billion.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 25, 2026

General Intuition’s model is trained on millions of hours of videogame play from real humans, gathered from its sister service Medal.tv, a platform for capturing and sharing gaming clips.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

Halliday created Anorak’s Quest for fun, to share with the guys in his D&D gaming group.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline




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