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Filip Hrgovic ripped up the script and shattered Moses Itauma's world-title dream as the Briton appeared to punch himself out in an extraordinary heavyweight contest in London.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

Hrgovic continued to press and when Itauma slumped into his corner, exhausted and barely able to defend himself, referee Howard Foster waved off the contest as the towel came in.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

“All those drag queens, sometimes I see some of them look more like me than I do,” said the star, who famously lost a Dolly Parton lookalike contest.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

She once quietly entered a Dolly Parton drag queen look-alike contest -- and lost.

From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026

“And like you, I always wanted to win. After I came to America too. Do you know I won a contest for making the best biryani on Pakistan Day?”

From "Zara’s Rules for Record-Breaking Fun" by Hena Khan

There are 35 contests on the ballot in November.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

Thousands of spectators will line the route for the unprecedented race, which echoes Formula One contests staged on city streets in Las Vegas, Monaco and Singapore.

From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026

The kids who lose these contests aren’t chosen at random.

From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026

With Tuesday’s primaries in Wisconsin, Minnesota and South Carolina over, we’re down to fewer than a half dozen states that have contests left to go.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

Besides, I didn’t become a teacher to win any congeniality contests.

From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers

It is unclear whether the Louisiana ruling covering Hendrick’s transfer will be contested.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026

It was put to Root that Australia would be unlikely to give up the advantage of hosting England at their most successful venues when the urn is contested down under.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

The profusion of killing leads Mr. Winder to describe the contested Rhineland, across which so many rival armies have fought, as “a battlefield interrupted, every now and then, by a truce.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Russian-Japanese relations have long been dogged by the contested islands, known in Japan as the Northern Territories and seized by the Soviet Union in 1945.

From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026

For five or six strokes, the bows of the two boats contested for the lead, back and forth like the heads of racehorses coming down the stretch.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

China's two-time US Open quarter-finalist Zheng Qinwen, contesting a Grand Slam qualifying event for the first time since the 2022 Australian Open, defeated compatriot Xiaodi You 6-3 6-2.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026

Randy Mastro, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, filed a letter on Tuesday contesting the automatic stay and maintaining that the court’s emergency pause is still in effect.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

“Waymo reviews all received citations and may engage with the court to address and resolve them, including contesting cases on their merit if we believe they were issued erroneously,” a company spokesman said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

That history is why contesting the constitutional allocation of public safety cannot mean giving private people authority to govern vulnerable people.

From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026

We began a long and detailed argument contesting the indictment itself.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela