clinched
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Clinched playoff berth by extending longest home win streak in 11 years to seven games in beating Calgary on Thursday.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 12, 2024
Clinched playoff spot for fifth time in past six years with sixth consecutive victory behind a trade-deadline-bolstered defense that’s allowed two goals or fewer in five of those contests.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 29, 2024
Warriors: Clinched the sixth seed in the Western Conference playoffs and will face the Sacramento Kings in the first round.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 9, 2023
Clinched playoff spot, then started losing to everybody.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 17, 2023
It hath been wet with tears and dimmed with sighs, Clinched in my grasp, till beauty hath it none— Now, from thy footstool where it vanquished lies, The prayer ascendeth, "May thy will be done."
From Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul by Mudge, James