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[ih-stab-lish] / ɪˈstæb lɪʃ /




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By 2023, Beckham was an MLS co-owner after exercising an option to establish an expansion team that he’d secured when he joined the LA Galaxy as a player.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

While they identified a relationship between food insufficiency and sports gambling, they noted that direct causation for such a large issue is difficult to establish.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 2026

In their original bid book, the three prospective host nations unveiled a preliminary estimate of 3.6m tonnes of CO2e, referencing hopes that it would "establish new standards for environmental sustainability in sport".

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026

One month of data can’t definitively establish a trend, or answer whether the present cohort of first-time buyers are particularly wealthy, Yun notes.

From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026

For them, a vacuum was an impossibility, so all the experiments that appeared to establish the existence of such a thing were strange indeed.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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