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He spent the first eight seasons of his career with the Brewers, emerging as an ace before everything fell apart with the Mets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

Bauers delivered the knockout blow in Milwaukee’s 6-2 victory on Wednesday, smashing a go-ahead, two-run home run off ace Blake Snell to give the Brewers a lead they would never relinquish.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

They did, actually: They thought their best chance to win was to run up the pitch count on Milwaukee ace Jacob Misiorowski and get him out of the game early.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

“I think we’ve got the best talent in the league,” Yankees ace Cam Schlittler said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Faced with the twin rebellions of dissonant modernism and the mass market, the classical tradition found an ace up its sleeve and played it with impeccable timing.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

And if Glasnow can rescue the Dodgers, they would have their three high-paid aces — Skubal, Yamamoto and Snell — lined up for the next three elimination games.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

But Smith said he assumed Yamamoto, the Dodgers’ ace of the aces and last year’s World Series MVP, had everything under control.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

World number two Sabalenka hit 11 aces and did not face a break point in a 6-1 6-3 victory over the Mexican.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

Rybakina also leads the tour in aces and is capable of spending entire matches firing from the baseline.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

I never thought I wouldn’t want four aces.

From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak

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

Netflix has for now aced out Paramount Skydance in a bidding war for Warner Bros.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026

“You aced that social studies quiz and made all those shots in the basketball game because you ate jelly beans?”

From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein

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

“Bragging about acing a cognitive test while forgetting the name of the doctor who gave it to you is like writing on a résumé that you speak three languages and misspelling the word ‘languages.’”

From New York Times ● Jun. 18, 2024

She can't control the haters, but she can control her response and so Yasmin says she's just focused on protecting her mental health and acing the role.

From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2023

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