crown
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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
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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
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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
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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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