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crown

[kroun] / kraʊn /






VERB
hit, usually on head
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Forest are one of the club's Everton and their fans would hope to surpass, not bolster them by selling one of their crown jewels to them.

From BBC Aug. 30, 2026

He became crown prince in 1957, and studied social science, history and economics at Balliol College in Oxford from 1960 to 1962.

From BBC Aug. 28, 2026

No living crown group insect has comparable abdominal appendages.

From Science Daily Aug. 27, 2026

The crown jewel of the portfolio was a stake in Anthropic, where Aschenbrenner briefly considered trying to get a job after he left OpenAI.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 26, 2026

“One of the evil one’s minions, the Red Hood, stole the Mirror after the crown was removed,” the wolf said.

From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley

Dental crowns are protective caps placed over teeth that have been damaged or affected by decay.

From Science Daily Aug. 23, 2026

A cypress, representing the Tree of Life, crowns the central portal.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

James sparked the Miami Heat to NBA crowns in 2013 and 2014, brought his hometown Cleveland Cavaliers a title in 2016 and delivered a championship for the Lakers in 2020.

From Barron's Jul. 24, 2026

Monuments to Adam Smith and David Hume on the Royal Mile have also been anointed with plastic crowns.

From BBC Jul. 3, 2026

Now this might seem like no big deal, but the cubic zirconia pageant crowns are guarded more safely than the bank across the street.

From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy

The Spaniard's representatives have not commented, but he is due to play in Indianapolis, having recently been crowned the league's individual champion for a third consecutive year.

From BBC Aug. 17, 2026

A pipe band from Canada has been crowned World Pipe Band champions - the first time in 16 years that a band outside the UK has taken the honour.

From BBC Aug. 16, 2026

At 11 years old, Sivanandan had just been crowned as Britain’s youngest ever women’s chess champion.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

Mikaela’s grandmother and James crowned Mikaela’s parents the best dancers.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

Grammer was a rodeo star who had performed at Madison Square Garden and been crowned the steer-roping champion of the world.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

Should their attention be all on Tadej's Pogacar's crowning as the joint most successful rider of all time, with five Tour titles?

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

Putting him on the almighty dollar would be the crowning achievement of these efforts.

From Salon Jul. 22, 2026

In a career that has taken the former London transport boss around the world, delivering a new Penn Station, he says, would be his crowning achievement: “To me, this is the daddy.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 13, 2026

Until recently, its crowning achievements were “shrinkflation,” where companies subtly reduce product sizes to raise unit prices, and “garbatrage,” when a takeover announcement sends shares of low-quality companies in the same industry higher.

From Barron's Jun. 12, 2026

Galton knew that the crowning achievement of the law would be its ability to accurately predict a real pattern of inheritance.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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