champion
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All told, the Brewers finished 11-2 in October, knocking off the red-hot San Diego Padres, the two-time defending champion Los Angeles Dodgers and the Rays.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
The 2025 French Open girls' champion was superb on serve - dropping just seven service points and not facing a break point - while handling Williams' pace and crushing groundstrokes off both wings.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026
“Thank you, Susan, for being an extraordinary champion of our athletes,” Special Olympics added in its statement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
Northern Ireland's Graeme McDowell has become the latest major champion to confirm his departure from LIV Golf.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
Twice champion of the USSR, he’d won the 1958 Portorož Interzonal, becoming a front runner to play the incumbent titleholder, Mikhail Botvinnik, for the World Championship in 1960.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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The Brewers have won the World Series for the first time in franchise history, overcoming their significant economic disadvantages to emerge as unlikely champions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
Dubbed 'The Bosnian Brick Wall' by fans, he has helped Leeds boast the second meanest defence in the Premier League behind defending champions Arsenal.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
He describes the presenter as one of his "biggest champions" in the last decade.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
"I came to a country that supposedly champions liberty, justice, rule of law, only to be shocked when I entered these detention centers that all my rights were left outside," he said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026
“Got to give our champions their instructions, haven’t we? Barty, want to do the honors?”
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
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Taylor, who declined to be interviewed for this story, has said that the laws he has championed prioritize public safety.
From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026
The high-profile project, championed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has been dogged by criticism over the deaths of several of the cats.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026
Max Eberl, Bayern Munich's board member for sport, championed Kane and Michael Olise but said the best players, external "are the ones who don't need to run a campaign".
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
Raman, whose campaign did not respond to an interview request, served until recently as chair of the City Council’s Housing and Homelessness Committee, where she championed tenant rights.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
The union championed other progressive groups as well.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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The prime minister said the digital news provider should be lauded for consistently championing "democracy, human rights" and the UK's role on the world stage since it was launched in 1986.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
"We also welcome the European Parliament's leadership in championing a harmonised, Europe-wide framework to keep kids safe," Cook said during a visit to an Apple store in Strasbourg.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
Among those voicing concerns and championing the role of the Heimlich maneuver are the children of the doctor behind it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Jourdane spent his life championing the causes he believed in, such as safe conditions for workers, voting rights and standing up for the oppressed, his family said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
He also writes about art, the art world, and their mutual goal of championing the Impressionists and other modern painters.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
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