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These extraordinarily violent events produce gravitational waves and rank among the most powerful explosions in the Universe.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
Three playoff teams — the Tampa Bay Rays, Cleveland Guardians and Chicago White Sox — rank among the six lowest payrolls, according to MLB present-day salary calculations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
Milwaukee and Tampa Bay rank 19th and 27th in payroll, respectively, according to data from Spotrac.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
Ten of the most famous scandals in Test cricket have been picked out by a TMS panel and we are asking you to rank them in order of how big they were.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
So there were rank beginners who barely knew the moves, seasoned club players who’d been playing chess all of their lives, and a sprinkling of masters.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
Tuchel seems to think England may have an option within their ranks already in the guise of fellow superstar Jude Bellingham.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
Now, the prediction market is bolstering compliance protocols and expanding its executive ranks as it eyes an IPO.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
In Philly, parallel parking ranks as top entertainment.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
On came Stafford, who ranks fourth all time in fourth-quarter comebacks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
There were real ranks now, squadron leaders with bullhorns; we marched over the snowy hills wave upon wave.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
Nielsen, which releases a weekly ratings ranker for streaming content, also uses hours watched to rank programs.
From New York Times ● Nov. 16, 2021
News, the magazine that has already established itself as the most noticed ranker of the nation’s colleges and universities.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 13, 2017
“Because I intend on making one that’s a whole lot ranker than we’ve had before.”
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 1, 2014
But Holles' ranker speech is rich and authentic.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nurse, I'm only a ranker, but I had a bit saved.
From A Diary Without Dates by Enid Bagnold
"Every time we accelerated on the highway, whale juice would pour into the windows of the car, and it was the rankest thing on the planet," Ms Kennedy told the magazine.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2024
The feminist with a fundamentally optimistic vision, who believed that people, especially men, could be better, might be soon replaced by the rankest misogynist.
From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2020
The rankest compound of villainous smell that ever offended nostril.
From Washington Post ● May 10, 2018
For the F.A., claiming to be the world’s policeman while turning a blind eye to apparent offenses at home would have been the rankest hypocrisy.
From New York Times ● Sep. 27, 2016
Raisins and nuts and dried ber-ries, but no lemon, that was the rankest sort of southron heresy—which was queer, since he always took lemon in his morning beer.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
Wales have never beaten a top-20 ranked nation in a competitive fixture and are likely to need to do so to qualify.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Rogan’s show was ranked as the top podcast last year on Spotify, YouTube and Apple Podcasts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
Year: 2020 Compiled by: Heather Schwedel Of note: Yes, all 22 celebrities in That Video are ranked.
From Slate ● Oct. 7, 2026
Government ethics ranked second behind the economy in Pew's open-ended survey, cited by nine percent of voters.
From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026
She clicked on the profile and was surprised to see that Babbage ranked Sherlock Holmes level, the highest possible level.
From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
Year: 2022 Compiled by: Dan Kois and Slate Staff Of note: Accompanied by several supplemental essays, including a ranking by Chris Molanphy of “The Top 5 Mob Movie Deaths of All Time.”
From Slate ● Oct. 7, 2026
Wu Yize secured his first ranking title since becoming world champion with a 10-5 win over Yuan Sijun in an all-Chinese final at the Shenzhen Open.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
USC beats four early-season patsies to boost their stats and gain a No. 12 ranking, all the while their defense stinks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
The countries that are driving AI development showed lower rates of usage, with the U.S. ranking 21st with 33% usage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
In other words, cell phone use by drivers was ranking as a serious problem by the public, and, yet, we were doing it all the time.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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