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goal

[gohl] / goʊl /


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What is your overarching goal for these shows?

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2026

And then I kind of celebrated as if I was like a fan, in shock, that's just scored their first goal.

From BBC • Apr. 11, 2026

But he has begun the season with his most preposterous goal yet: MLB’s best hitter also wants to be recognized as MLB’s best pitcher.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026

It’s the absolute goal of every resort operator to satisfy that hankering.

From Slate • Apr. 11, 2026

As Jefferson put it so graphically, their larger goal was “to sink federalism into an abyss from which there shall be no resurrection of it.”

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis




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