game
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Will the game boot it all away with an extended work stoppage?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
"It gets us used to that quicker pace. Australia threw a lot of shape at us. So defensively, it was a great test for us to have going into this game," Whitfield said.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
This pits their solid running game against an Atlanta defense that just shut down previously undefeated San Francisco.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
According to the NBA, Ball averaged 20.1 points, 7.1 assists, and 4.8 rebounds per game during his final season in Charlotte, appearing in 72 games.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026
She reaches over the counter and hands me our Scrabble game and I swallow over a bulge that wrenches up in my throat.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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Defensive lineman Poona Ford is out for the season because of a triceps injury, and defensive lineman Kobie Turner must sit out three more games while on injured reserve because of a groin injury.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
According to the NBA, Ball averaged 20.1 points, 7.1 assists, and 4.8 rebounds per game during his final season in Charlotte, appearing in 72 games.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026
This was not the moment for such games, the rep had concluded.
From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2026
Yet even in the thrilling 6-3 win against Daniel Farke's side, which remains one of only two games he has started this campaign, he was withdrawn at half-time with Chelsea trailing 1-0.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
I keep shooing her away with the promise of board games after dinner, but she’s getting impatient.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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And, if you’re a gamer but not a horror connoisseur, Nadira Goffe helpfully breaks down whether Resident Evil will be too scary for you, using Slate’s highly scientific Scaredy Scale.
From Slate ● Sep. 21, 2026
Mike Demopoulos, a 40-year-old gamer in Minnesota who works in web hosting and has a Pac-Man tattoo, subscribed to SuperPower soon after reading about the clean-energy initiative.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
God of War fan and gamer Imogen Mellor tells BBC Newsbeat that seeing Laufey get her own story is "so exciting".
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 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
I’m a pro at trolling gamer boys online.
From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas
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“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
Said Champion Tunney, ". . . one of the two gamest."
From Time Magazine Archive
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Though beaten after the gamest losing campaign since Bryan in 1896, Wendell Willkie polled: 1.
From Time Magazine Archive
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This gamest and most delicious of salt-water fish is noted for its strength, voracity, and grit.
From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Samuel Adams Drake
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
He said the airline has gamed out the possibility that oil prices jump to $175 a barrel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 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
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By gaming the league’s salary cap, the Eagles built a roster boasting many of the league’s best—and most expensive—players.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
Known as “Notch” in the gaming community, Persson founded Mojang Studios in 2009, and the company released “Minecraft” two years later.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
The cards, all filed into bespoke Pokémon binders while still sealed, were stored in the attic after his son lost interest in the Japanese gaming and film franchise.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
Netflix since 2021 has bought gaming studios and invested in building its games division with mixed results.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
But still, clunker that it was, the four-year-old gaming console in the family room worked.
From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein
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