trophy
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The US are hoping to win the trophy on European soil for the first time since 2015.
From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026
The golf-mad president -- whose relaxed relationship with the game's rules was documented by sports journalist Rick Reilly in the 2019 book "Commander in Cheat" -- may even award the trophy on Sunday.
From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026
It proved to be a hard-fought opening day between Europe and a US team looking to retain the trophy following their 15½-12½ victory in Virginia two years ago.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
For their crowning moment, athletes lifted their trophy from a plinth beside their competition area before heading to a winners' enclosure in the stands where they joined the likes of Usain Bolt and Noah Lyles.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
“I was just telling Sonny,” he said, “I think someday there will be a trophy in here for the Big Creek Missile Agency.”
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
The practice has alarmed de la Espriella’s political opponents and human-rights groups, who accuse him of displaying the dead as trophies and violating international rules that prohibit desecrating those killed in operations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
As win percentages flashed up on screen, and sparklers lit up the dark backdrop as athletes posed with their trophies, athletics attempted to take its first steps in a brand new direction.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Here’s how the races for the 78th Primetime Emmy Awards should shake out when the trophies are presented Monday at 5 p.m.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Kane had never won a trophy during his time at Tottenham, or with England, so the pull of going to a team who win trophies nearly every year was strong.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
Their eyes swept the walls like searchlights, revealing each mounted, stuffed head in turn: the furred ears, the massive pronged antlers, the bared teeth—all the dead yet sickeningly lifelike trophies of Lord Fredrick’s hunting habit.
From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood
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Academy Awards, List 1
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