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game

[geym] / geɪm /






NOUN
individual sporting event
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NOUN
undomesticated animals chased for food
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The singers of the Bard Festival Chorale were a game group, swarming all over the stage.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 28, 2026

Overall for Bodo/Glimt, the Denmark striker - who has scored once in four caps for his country - has averaged a goal every other game.

From BBC Jul. 28, 2026

He has a radar for the rim, sixth in the NBA in dunks per game in 2024-25.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 28, 2026

More: For 44 years, this investor held aces in the long-bond game.

From MarketWatch Jul. 28, 2026

I prefer geeking out on Nintendo or practicing guitar over spending a cold night at a football game.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

But please, stop and consider the tankathon Utah has been running; the last thing the Jazz wanted was Kessler on the court winning games for them.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 28, 2026

The 32-year-old has played 362 Premier League games in total, keeping 98 clean sheets and saving almost 70% of the shots he has faced - including 86% from outside the box.

From BBC Jul. 28, 2026

That said, NetEase’s online games segment is still supported by its evergreen titles, they say.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 28, 2026

I want to be able to afford a ticket and go to games.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 28, 2026

He had taken his sons, who had taken their wives, who had borne children, who crawled around on the carpets playing games with the patrons’ toes.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

GameStop said Thursday that one gamer in Columbus, Ohio, visited one of its locations to trade in some of his old physical games for store credit.

From MarketWatch Jul. 2, 2026

A venue in Rotterdam turned itself over to fantasy dress-up and gamer fanaticism on the weekend, with thousands attending TwitchCon Europe.

From Barron's May 30, 2026

"There goes my hopes of ever getting an OLED," posted one disappointed gamer.

From BBC May 28, 2026

The streamer, known online as Chantelle Plays, felt the price cut was a "big win" for the casual gamer as they no longer have to subsidise the Call of Duty addition.

From BBC Apr. 22, 2026

“Seabiscuit is the gamer horse. I know that.”

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

“He was one of the coolest, neatest, kindest, gamest horses I’ll ever have. When I saw him in there, my heart sank.”

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 18, 2017

Lots of good intentions and the gamest efforts of able leading actors, respectively Gary Oldman and Ed Harris, could not breathe life into those turkeys.

From Slate Jul. 27, 2010

Jesse Livermore, a friend from pre-War days in Chicago, Broker Block has called "the gamest and cleverest trader alive."

From Time Magazine Archive

Little Old Man Ledoux, gamest of the game.

From Time Magazine Archive

Said Henry A. Wise, "He is the gamest man I ever met."

From John Brown An Address at the 14th Anniversary of Storer College by Douglass, Frederick

Unlike sports or elections, he said, there’s no regulator keeping watch over whether a reality show market is being run — or gamed — fairly.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 15, 2026

Speaking ahead of the summit, UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper described the deal as a "common-sense approach" and said she wants to ensure systems "can't be unfairly gamed".

From BBC May 15, 2026

But under a "worst-case scenario" gamed out by Eurasia Group, damage to Iran's oilfields permanently hits the country's exports, while the precarity to Hormuz traffic persists.

From Barron's Mar. 2, 2026

However, SEC rules governing derivative-linked volatility could probably be gamed to a certain extent, he said.

From MarketWatch Oct. 23, 2025

Upon their return from Las Vegas, they set out to pester the rating agencies, and the Wall Street people who gamed their models, for more information.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Created by mathematician Richard Garfield and first published by gaming company Wizards of the Coast in the early 1990s, Magic found success by selling cards through thousands of local game stores around the world.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 26, 2026

Since first emerging online in 2019 on the online bulletin board 4chan, the Backrooms phenomenon has expanded across Reddit, TikTok, YouTube and gaming platforms, where users collectively map, narrate and extend its mythology.

From Science Daily Jul. 26, 2026

She allocates an hour a day for gaming which her boys enjoy, and then fills the rest of the time with playing, reading or writing.

From BBC Jul. 24, 2026

If he had amassed the same number of records, skateboard decks or vintage gaming consoles — all fire hazards — would he have gotten the same eviction warning?

From Salon Jul. 23, 2026

All the tables, chairs, couches, beanbags, gaming rockers, and floor pillows are pushed to the sides.

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




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