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The moment was par for the mayor’s night.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

SpaceX last week unveiled Grok 4.6, which is roughly on par with OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol model but is not as strong as Anthropic’s top Claude models.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026

Kimi K3 performed on par with, or better than, some leading closed-weight models, and access to it was priced far more cheaply.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

Despite the overall drop, the demographics remained on par with last year in terms of the tournament's target family audience, with 22% of tickets sold to juniors, 40% to families and 28% to female attendees.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026

Regardless, Reggie’s brain, and his performance, was right on par with most test subjects.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel

"He was making a lot of pars and then obviously at the end Kurt did what he did and Adam posted and I started to make a couple birdies," McIlroy said.

From Barron's ● Feb. 23, 2026

“I’m trying to keep the same mindset,” Morikawa said after six birdies, nine pars and three bogeys left him in a six-way tie for fifth at three under.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2026

Nine pars followed though before he finished bogey-double bogey.

From BBC ● Nov. 16, 2025

Volatility matters too—because of the format, a player who birdies half the holes and bogeys the other half can be more valuable than someone who cards 18 pars.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2025

It is almost impossible to tighten the orbicularis oculi, pars orbitalis on demand, and it is equally difficult to stop it from tightening when we smile at something genuinely pleasurable.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

When play resumed, Korda had a three-stroke lead over South Korea's Amy Yang, who parred 17 and 18 on Sunday to seize second on 206 with a closing 69.

From Barron's ● Feb. 1, 2026

DeChambeau, who started the day two back, parred the first hole to forge the tie.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2025

Griffin had piled on the pressure with birdies on the 15th, 16th and 17th to close within one of his playing partner but could not find another as MacIntyre safely parred the last three holes.

From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2024

He parred the 18th after birdieing the previous three holes.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 2, 2024

Compare the past participles osed, 971, mixed, 2533, parred, 2439, gadred, 2577; reft, 1367, wend, 2138, hyd, 1059; told, 1036, sold, 1638, wrouth = wrout, 1352.

From The Lay of Havelok the Dane by Unknown

After parring the first hole, Song bogeyed the second and birdied the third, but found herself down three shots to Cleveland’s Momoka Takahashi, who birdied the first three holes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2024

Fox had a late scare at the 17th but managed to limit the damage to just one dropped shot before safely parring the last.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 2, 2022

“It’s difficult to be out of a golf match if you’re parring all the holes.”

From New York Times ● Apr. 11, 2017

He hit every fairway after that, picking up that crucial birdie at No. 14 and parring his way home.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 18, 2014

I ended up birdieing 14, parring 15, hit a bad drive on 16 and made another bogey, then parred in.

From Golf Digest ● Jun. 9, 2014