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"The referee has cost Shittu the contest," Woodhall said on TNT Sports.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

This aligns with the developments in the race, as Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, who was loath to get involved in the race, jumped in to endorse Stevens late in the contest.

From Slate ● Aug. 1, 2026

This year’s weeklong contest concludes Saturday in Phoenix, when a new world champion will be crowned.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

With a pivotal contest looming this year, Mr. Earle’s book reminds readers that the messy practice of democracy has never been easy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

They pause to let this idea sink in and then they move into naming the contest winners.

From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila

Kolodny also emphasized that it’s politically savvy for industry groups to support the re-election of incumbents in safe seats, rather than just focusing on the relatively few of the House’s 435 contests that are competitive.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026

Enabling most close races to be called by the Friday after election day by providing more precise data on unprocessed ballots in those contests, Alexander said, is also not likely to happen by November.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026

Rather than a shootout or penalty kicks, the championship was decided by a single moment of quality in one of the tournament’s tightest contests.

From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026

Germans do it only during international sporting contests.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

Hellenistic rulers, it is said, trivialized Greek civic life by reducing it to pompous pageantry and contests over who could best flatter the king.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro

Most forfeiture targets have none of those advantages, which is why the overwhelming majority of forfeitures are never contested at all.

From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2026

Its construction and design, however, were hotly contested things, as I learned from Brian Jay Jones’s “The Capitol: The Surprising Biography of an American Building.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

A sport cannot function seriously on a world scale without such conformity, and a World Cup - launched in 1963 and contested every four years since - needed that.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

Friedkin’s movie shifted people’s perceptions about fear and played with longstanding ideas about the nuclear family and religious ideology, themes that were starting to be contested and debated as America moved further from ’50s-era sterility.

From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026

Was it producing indisputable knowledge that could not be contested?

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

“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

Against that backdrop, he was powerless to prevent Andy Burnham contesting the by-election triggered in Makerfield in Greater Manchester to give him a chance to return to Westminster and take over as Labour leader.

From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026

Washington and Tehran have been contesting some of the deal’s finer points, including whether passage through the key waterway will be free from tolls.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 16, 2026

Nothing much happened in court, other than Du Bois announcing his plans to file a motion contesting the decision to try Richard as an adult.

From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater