name of the game

Example Sentences

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“Getting the cost of inference down is the name of the game now.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 16, 2026

The final judgement on this will be shaped at the end of the season – but if the name of the game is winning then Arsenal are doing it right.

From BBC • Mar. 3, 2026

Triple-digit sales growth is the name of the game for CoreWeave, and that will be the first thing Wall Street analysts will look at when earnings are released.

From Barron's • Feb. 26, 2026

Trying to get everyone right now — I don’t think that’s the name of the game anymore.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 16, 2025

They had enough food—scavenged from the ruins, hunted in the woods, brought up from Asheville sometimes—but rationing was the name of the game, and everyone looked like they were one meal a day short.

From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner