pip

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It has been the presumed favourite to win best picture throughout award season so far, and it could still pip Sinners to the top trophy in March.

From BBC • Jan. 22, 2026

Ogier, 41, finished third in the season-closing Rally Saudi Arabia to pip Toyota teammate Elfyn Evans to the crown.

From Barron's • Nov. 29, 2025

Shaine Casas clocked an American record of 1min 49.43sec to pip French superstar Leon Marchand for victory in the men's 200m individual medley.

From Barron's • Oct. 11, 2025

Many had tipped Balatro - the poker-inspired card game made by an anonymous, lone developer known as LocalThunk - to pip Astro Bot to the award this year.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2025

His foreman was a man defeated by his own pessimistic views, and his news was mostly a series of misfortunes: the strawberries froze, the chickens caught the pip, the grapes rotted.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende