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With Milwaukee ace Jacob Misiorowski — the favorite for the NL Cy Young Award — giving up just five hits, the Dodgers struggled against a pitcher they could see again in the postseason.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026

But if success was ever going to come for the Buccos, it would have to hinge on their generational ace.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

Runner-up Rybakina had one ace and four double faults, hitting just 13 winners and making 23 unforced errors in total.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

“It was deliberately designed this way, so that they have this ace card in their back pocket if there’s an accident,” Justin King, Benton’s lawyer, said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026

But this night left every plant as black, Daddy said, as the ace of spades.

From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen

Not everybody aces every Advanced Placement exam, though overwhelmingly they pass the state’s standardized tests, and according to Success Academy every graduate in recent years has been accepted to a four-year college.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

More: For 44 years, this investor held aces in the long-bond game.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026

He won 87% of points behind his first serve and hit 13 aces to two double faults.

From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026

A precipitous drop in fastball velocity has the Pittsburgh Pirates wondering what happened to one of the brightest young aces in the league.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026

He’s the person who aces all his tests but doesn’t turn in any homework.

From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman

Steve aced the audition, and the four of us clicked immediately over our shared love of the Pretenders and all things Monty Python.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026

"He was given what's called a mini-mental state exam and he aced it. He got 29 out of 30," she said.

From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026

Levito, skating in her mother’s hometown of Milan where her grandmother still lives, calmly aced her Olympic debut with a score of 70.84 that put her in eighth place.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2026

They placed him on a track for software development after he aced the exams to get into an elite middle school that fed to a top university.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026

We were the first ones who’d ever aced her exam in under thirty seconds.

From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan

Meanwhile he brags about acing three different cognitive tests in the last year.

From Salon ● Jan. 2, 2026

For years, high-schoolers have boasted in college applications about learning Latin, leading the chess club or acing Advanced Placement Physics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 25, 2025

Minter is acing his first impression as an NFL play caller by emphasizing teamwork beyond just the field.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2024

He rose fast and steep - acing trials for Kent, London and the South East and England Counties - excelling at every level.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2024

We both ended up acing the test, but that episode kind of took the excitement out of climbing and pilfering tests and pretty much everything else.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx