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They don't really get noticed in games unless they score, but if you're watching and you've played the game, you know these two are really important.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
By the end of the summer, the number had become part accounting device, part civic high score.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
Malcolm says “orthosomnia”—where chasing the perfect score worsens sleep—is real.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
Cal took its opening possession of the third quarter 85 yards in a 14-play drive that tied the score 24-24.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
Bobby had a score of 10–2 and hadn’t lost a game.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
Along with his three scores, Knight ran for 71 yards in eight carries in his Bruins debut.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
“I’m not in the moment wondering if I’m being too greedy,” said Angel Gutierrez, a full-time options trader who built an agent that scores contracts to determine when to sell.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
Just as Bernhard sang it over the opening of “Unzipped,” the same song scores the beginning of Mizrahi’s triumphant Fall/Winter 1995 presentation.
From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2026
We do know that scores of mothers saw Lindsay Clancy and felt a twinge of understanding.
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2026
He also assigned scores to each of them according to some made-up scoring pattern.
From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn
Western Michigan kicker Dieter Kelly scored all 12 of the Broncos’ points as the 27.5-point underdogs nearly upset No. 16 Michigan before losing 13-12 on a Hail Mary touchdown.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
Moving to London, she signed a deal with RCA Records and immediately scored an international hit with her first single, Torn.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
He rushed for 29 yards and scored a touchdown.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
Ainsley Maitland-Niles crashed home a thunderous long-range shot as Everton scored in stoppage time to earn a 2-2 draw at home to Manchester United.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
Sohrab scored three more times, with assists from some of our new teammates, before Hossein held on to the ball and waved us all out to huddle midfield.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
Stanford University sleep professor Rafael Pelayo noted that two human technicians scoring the same night often disagree by up to 20%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
The guidelines recommend using validated risk scoring tools that take kidney function into account.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026
Teoscar Hernández stepped into exactly the kind of situation the Dodgers had failed to capitalize on during the past couple of games: runners in scoring position.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
This season he has continued his form, scoring a penalty in Forest's 2-2 draw at Liverpool on Saturday after assisting Dan Ndoye's opener.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
We played until Hossein and Ali-Reza got tired of us scoring goals on them.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
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