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His work came in ninth in the 1976 Westinghouse Science Talent Search, the prestigious competition that Regeneron has sponsored since 2016.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Betts, who went four for five, hit two home runs — a solo shot in the seventh and a two-run blast in the ninth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Three bogeys in a row - on the ninth, 10th and 11th - ensured a poignant home Open victory would remain a fantasy.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
Arena ranked Kimi K3 ninth worldwide for text queries.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
There’s the skiff my dad built me for my ninth birthday.
From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick
Jagged with octave jumps, hard-to-land-on intervals of sevenths and ninths, and grinding dissonances, his high-tensioned 70-minute song cycle was even more difficult to sing than to listen to.
From Time Magazine Archive
Other than wins, Sofia has had a third, two fifths and two ninths.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sofia has had three first place wins, a third, two fifths and two ninths.
From Time Magazine Archive
They only babbled of theme and counter-theme, of harmonies and resultant sounds, of consecutive ninths and tierce major.
From Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House by Cannan, Gilbert
The most important characteristics of the gift are: introduction of diagonal line and triangular form; division into thirds, ninths, and twenty-sevenths; illustration of the inclined plane and cube-root.
From Froebel's Gifts by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith
