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Premier League referees' chief Howard Webb says Sven Botman's foul on Nicolas Jackson was a "high-end reckless challenge" but backed the video assistant referee's decision not to intervene for a red card.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

Over cries of foul from those who came in person, the board’s attorney Shayla Myers announced the meeting was canceled because the Zoom channel had a capacity of only 1,000.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026

Wale also has 12 months to stop living on the land, remove the cabin and its associated foul drainage.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

Las Vegas Aces star A’ja Wilson received a technical foul late in her team’s playoff loss to the Fever after leaving the court to confront a fan.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

Another time, when Baaz had been in a foul mood, she’d been ordered to spend hours mucking hay and giraffe poop from the paddocks.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

Sometimes players will get involved in healthy debates about potential fouls, although on other occasions the odd player might be caught catching a nap.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

He played basketball for the Lions, but after his sophomore season he decided to try football, since his physical play in basketball led to fouls, something that was legal in football.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026

Fox’s coverage pivoted from hard fouls to trans panic, Clark got dragged into a fight she has spent three years trying to avoid and Cunningham’s follower count exploded.

From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026

The VAR will not be able to review defensive fouls before the ball is in play because it is not possible to give a penalty.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

Rodriguez fouls Brayden’s next pitch toward the bleachers behind our dugout.

From "A High Five for Glenn Burke" by Phil Bildner

Having inured himself to the fouler demands of his job, Jovan must now contend with a more depraved, bleach-resistant form of refuse as a rogue insider splatters his workplace with sinister graffiti.

From New York Times ● Nov. 22, 2017

"Foul as it is, Hell itself is made fouler by the presence of John."

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2016

The spirit of Marc Bolan is banished and a fouler one installed.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 12, 2016

Now the OKC point guard is probably in an even fouler mood: On Friday, the team announced he’s having surgery to repair a torn right meniscus and will be out “indefinitely.”

From Slate ● Apr. 26, 2013

Stones and dung and fouler things whistled overhead.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

They gave off one of the foulest smells I have ever experienced.

From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2023

The greatest leader of our time has been struck down by the foulest deed of our time … No words are sad enough to express our sense of loss.

From National Geographic ● Jan. 19, 2021

In the early 1980s, I bartended at an Edward Gorey exhibit at New York’s Gotham Book Mart, serving some of the foulest red wine known to humankind.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 23, 2018

Friday is the 152nd anniversary of one of the foulest deeds in American history.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 13, 2017

They were his oldest and foulest, mustard yellow, and had once belonged to Uncle Vernon.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling

He fouled off Snell’s fastball, changeup, curveball and slider.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

The average fastball in this postseason: 96.2 mph, according to analyst Mike Petriello’s close-up of all the different ways Ohtani’s swing is fouled up.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

At one point, he fouled off six straight before drawing a walk to load the bases.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

He was standing several feet in front of the on-deck circle when Busch fouled off a pitch by Cincinnati’s Luis Mey on a checked swing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

Benji got a few more baskets and blocked half a dozen shots, but he fouled just as often.

From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty

He battled Rays reliever Ian Seymour for eight pitches, fouling off a collection of well-placed fastballs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

The team from the land of Champagne, Renoir and haute couture has prepared for the tournament’s physical play, trash talk and persistent fouling.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

But the victory came with an asterisk: Folarin Balogun, a Brooklyn-born striker who leads the team in goals, got a red card for fouling an opposing player.

From Slate ● Jul. 6, 2026

All that fouling is hindering Brink’s development because it’s robbing her of important in-game reps — which she needs, foremost, to figure out how to stop fouling.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026

Sympathy lamps were mixed with candles, giving the room a natural light without fouling the air with smoke.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss