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[champ, chomp] / tʃæmp, tʃɒmp /


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“Avery Truesdale was a gifted baseball player who hit the walk off run for conference champ Arcadia in Logan’s freshman year,” she wrote.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 20, 2026

Pogi is the defending Tour champ and the reigning back-to-back world champion who wins nearly every race he enters.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

The U.S. national champ Quinn Simmons looks ready to win a stage and a mustache contest.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

Some have interpreted this as the defining moment when A.I. surpassed human prowess in math, akin to the moment in 1997 when IBM’s Deep Blue took down chess champ Garry Kasparov.

From Slate Jun. 22, 2026

But the undisputed champ of the purgatives was born in the enterprising mind of a jockey’s masseur named Frank “Frenchy” Hawley.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

"I've never done a home champs before so to have the crowd shout 'Abbie Donnelly' was an incredible experience."

From BBC Aug. 16, 2026

The Nifty Fifty fetched about 47 times earnings at their peak, which is higher than a simple average of today’s champs.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 24, 2026

"Excitement, fatigue - everything. But this is the best moment of the season. We are still champs, two in a row, it's amazing."

From BBC May 30, 2026

“When you’re the two-time defending league champs you take pride in that and you don’t want to give it away.”

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 3, 2026

“Paine, you and Donna really lucked out with these youngsters. They’re true champs, both of ’em.”

From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen

The vampirelike lamprey, sneaking into the Great Lakes in the 19th century, gradually champed its way through the fish population.

From New York Times Feb. 29, 2016

Gung-ho Lehman bankers champed at Japanese conservatism and bureaucracy, while Nomura veterans chafed at how much Lehman staff were paid.

From Reuters Jul. 24, 2015

At 'Sconset Where once fine horses tossed their manes And champed their oats and hay, Now daily flock the folks with brains, To dine and talk and play.

From Time Magazine Archive

As jittery contestants champed at the bit, U. S. tennis fans mused over nine days of the dullest top-flight tennis since women played in ankle-length flannel skirts and panama hats.

From Time Magazine Archive

There came a low word of command "Halt!" then a moment of horsey noises—nostrils blowing, hoofs pawing, bits being champed, necks being patted.

From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis

We know that many states are already champing at the bit to do that.

From Slate Apr. 30, 2026

“We’re champing at the bit to get the data,” one FAA official in Washington said at the time, as days stretched on after the crash without a black-box readout.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 28, 2025

If you started the movie at the end, you wouldn’t be champing to find out what happens next.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 5, 2025

They are champing at the bit to memorialize him, but Fife’s motives in agreeing are not purely about the film.

From New York Times Dec. 5, 2024

Kyro’s plan had me not run at all for two days, and now I’m champing at the bit.

From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen




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