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athletics

noun as in sports

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“This is an athletics issue,” Kraft said when asked about the costs of Franklin’s buyout.

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Beneath the towering, neon-lit billboards of Times Square, six of the world's top long jumpers are soaring through the air, turning one of New York's most iconic streets into an unlikely athletics stage.

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But I’ve come to not only tolerate my sons’ athletics—these activities, and the communities surrounding them, have truly enriched our lives.

So she moved on from rugby and took up athletics.

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Critics argued the golf series was a deliberate attempt at “sportswashing” by “banking on the glamour of athletics to outshine concerns about a history of human rights abuses,” The Times reported at the time.

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