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league

[leeg] / lig /




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Sage has won just two of his opening seven Premier League games in charge, while the 17 goals they have conceded is the most in the league.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

The Lakers have won 17 NBA championships — the second most in the league — with the last coming in 2020.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

At just 5-for-9 on field goal tries through five weeks, Mevis had the worst rate in the entire league.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

With 11 league scorers already - while also being the beneficiaries of three own goals - Hurzeler's men are sharing the load impressively.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

Sorry, but she’s just not in the same league as either Ximena or Savanna.

From "Auggie & Me" by R. J. Palacio

Once we’re leagued up, we’ll post the results, and there’ll be a weekly column here summing up the score, the scenario, and the stats.

From The Verge ● Feb. 28, 2019

He may be leagued with his appointees to abstract and share a larger percentage of the assets than the law allows, thus cheating legitimate creditors.

From Time Magazine Archive

Other Post stockholders leagued to announce that Newhouse's 15% invasion was as far as he would be allowed to go.

From Time Magazine Archive

The interests leagued against Wiley, finally manufactured charges that he had misused the funds of his Bureau; and, though exonerated by President Taft after a careful investigation had been made, he resigned in protest.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Achren is leagued with Arawn of Annuvin,” cried Taran.

From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander

Once a merchant brought with him a diving apparatus, but the divers were highly indignant, and leaguing against him refused to show the best banks.

From Southern Arabia by Theodore Bent

The formation of the Society of Mezzotint 703 Engravers in 1898 is an example of the leaguing together of particular workers to call attention to their interests.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" by Various

There is a common class feeling between the lawyers leaguing them against the judge.

From The Man in Court by Frederic DeWitt Wells

Bordeaux had been the centre of a conspiracy for leaguing together the malcontents of la Vendée with those of the South, these again being in touch with the royalists of the Lyonnais and Franche Comté.

From William Pitt and the Great War by John Holland Rose

It is possible that the religion which she secretly professes has estranged her heart from me, but she would never be capable of betraying me, or of leaguing herself with my foes.

From Henry VIII and His Court by Henry Niles Pierce


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