qualifying
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Ferrari's average deficit to Mercedes in qualifying this year is 0.447 seconds, and that's a big margin to make up just on a swing of characteristics.
From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026
Barely a decade after being crowned soccer world champions, England was about to miss out on qualifying for its second straight World Cup finals.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026
The night before qualifying, AB, Nereyda and friends sat in a hotel room making bracelets.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026
That was followed by a red flag incident at Brandish near the end of Tuesday evening's sidecar qualifying session, which left Maria Costello and her passenger Shaun Parker injured.
From BBC • May 28, 2026
These front-loaded modifiers can be useful in qualifying a sentence, in tying it to information mentioned earlier, or simply in avoiding the monotony of having one right-branching sentence after another.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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