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game

[gaym] / geɪm /






NOUN
individual sporting event
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NOUN
undomesticated animals chased for food
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Santa Margarita won its 15th consecutive game in defeating St. John Bosco 21-7.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

Archbishop Paul Gallagher, the Vatican's foreign minister since 2014, said the news of the Pope's ill health was "a bit of a game changer", adding "it's going to make things a bit different".

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

He had his moments but he is going to have to up his game.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

Everyone remembers the Aguero moment, but it was substitute Dzeko's header two minutes earlier that levelled the game.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

Who’s been playing an imaginary game of Look Away.

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

I grew up within driving distance of several of my cousins and spent vacations with them at my grandparents’ home, playing in the pool and battling over board games.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

Behind those 12 games, however, lives a coaching journey spanning 23 years across many continents and a variety of roles.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

Remarkably, the 24 he scored when coming on all came in different fixtures - which, of course, means he has also scored in more games as a substitute than anyone else.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

They have said the games remain on track to turn a profit, with excess funds promised to youth sports programs in Southern California.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

He whirled around and expected to see Freddy and Teddy playing games with him.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

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

Meanwhile, crowded gamer fans surrounded Tencent’s exhibition booth area at ChinaJoy, one of the world’s biggest gaming conventions over the weekend, showing continued enthusiasm for its games, the analysts say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

An avid online gamer, he also makes time for his family and his hobbies.

From BBC ● Jun. 28, 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

That’s when the gamer kid closer to me—I think his name is Jackson?— speaks up.

From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell

“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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The fish cannot see these lines, and they are effective against the gamest species.

From The Determined Angler and the Brook Trout an anthological volume of trout fishing, trout histories, trout lore, trout resorts, and trout tackle by Charles Barker Bradford

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

“Hedge funds are just liking the gamed uncertainty.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 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

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

He is now one of the best-known faces of the YouTube gaming channel, RKG, which he co-founded in 2019.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

In August, the company closed its Hollywood-based gaming studio Night School and said it was in the process of closing its Helsinki, Finland-based gaming studio Moonloot.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

Teaming up with Amazon, the CEO added, would allow Delta to build on its use of Amazon Web Services and to take advantage of Amazon’s capabilities in retailing, gaming and video.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

For South Korea, another gaming heavyweight, Park So-yeon became the first woman to represent their national team when she competed in Nagoya.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

Computer gaming and television watching is curtailed by these parents to one hour per day in exchange for study time.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin


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