champ
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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
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"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
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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
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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
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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
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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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