spoils

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Spoils of victory: Kevin Demoff, the Rams’ chief operating officer, attended practice wearing a Denver Nuggets NBA championship cap.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 13, 2023

Are all of Henry James’s books as hopelessly bad as “The Spoils of Poynton”?

From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2021

David O. Russell was intrigued by the description of The Spoils of War.

From Slate • Apr. 16, 2019

And most recently, he shot “The Spoils of War,” episode 4 of season 7, where Daenerys takes her dragons into battle in Westeros for the first time.

From The Verge • Aug. 11, 2017

Spoils of war were often left behind when a monster dissolved—sometimes a tooth, or a weapon, or even the monster’s entire head.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan