league
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It’s not the standard of what I think I’m capable of in this league.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
Unless, of course, this is Betts, now at 33, in his — unlucky? — 13th major league season and seventh as a Dodger?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
The pair’s greatest contribution to women’s basketball could be forcing the league to come up with some rule that keeps them out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
But really, this level of incompetence is in a league of its own.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
We were out of our neighborhood, out of our league.
From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson
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Once we’re leagued up, we’ll post the results, and there’ll be a weekly column here summing up the score, the scenario, and the stats.
From The Verge ● Feb. 28, 2019
He may be leagued with his appointees to abstract and share a larger percentage of the assets than the law allows, thus cheating legitimate creditors.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Other Post stockholders leagued to announce that Newhouse's 15% invasion was as far as he would be allowed to go.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The interests leagued against Wiley, finally manufactured charges that he had misused the funds of his Bureau; and, though exonerated by President Taft after a careful investigation had been made, he resigned in protest.
From Time Magazine Archive
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“Achren is leagued with Arawn of Annuvin,” cried Taran.
From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander
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Meanwhile Modred had stirred up a revolt, and leaguing himself with the Saxon invaders, had usurped Arthur's throne.
From Selections from Wordsworth and Tennyson by William Wordsworth
In the first place, he was on bad terms with Mrs. Oldershaw, which would protect me from all danger of the two leaguing together against me if I trusted him.
From Armadale by Wilkie Collins
Bordeaux had been the centre of a conspiracy for leaguing together the malcontents of la Vendée with those of the South, these again being in touch with the royalists of the Lyonnais and Franche Comté.
From William Pitt and the Great War by John Holland Rose
And I should hardly be surprised to see some of these, chagrined by an adverse decision, leaguing with foreign despots to restore the sway of the stronger by way of avenging their fancied wrongs!
From Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851. by Horace Greeley
Uniting, and leaguing, and engaging to stand by one another.'
From Hard Times by Charles Dickens
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