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[win] / wɪn /






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To win in girls’ flag football, you need your school’s best athletes to come out.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

After 31 first-team games and five goals for Sporting, Ronaldo caught the eye of Manchester United in a pre-season friendly in 2003, setting up two goals in a 3-1 win in Lisbon.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

Those efforts include working to grow business with existing customers as well as win new customers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

His last appearance came Sept. 24 in a 1-0 win over Wales in a Nations League game in Lisbon.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

"Sam," she said, "don't be disappointed if you don't win the prize. Prizes don't matter."

From "All About Sam" by Lois Lowry

The Buccaneers have run for a combined 582 yards in two straight wins, but they will have to be more balanced to beat the Bears.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

Last night’s wins could put half of the nation’s proposed data centers under stricter oversight with candidates supporting a slowdown winning at state and local levels, Bloomberg reports.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

If the National Party wins enough seats to govern, Luxon's second term will focus on growing international trade while continuing to cut back on what the coalition deem unnecessary costs in government.

From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026

Andrews painted herself as a pragmatist, willing to work with national Republicans to score wins for South Carolinians.

From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2026

We cannot, somehow, give up the idea that discovery, like a race, is a game in which one person wins and everyone else loses.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Hyeah he stan' all weary, but he winned his fight wid sin.

From The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar by William Dean Howells

If I winned I was goin' to buy Delaney's café.

From Heart of the West [Annotated] by Joseph E. Loewenstein

What I wants to know is as this; I winned my case—” “Quite so,” said Prigg.

From The Humourous Story of Farmer Bumpkin's Lawsuit by Richard Harris

“Ah, we winned the lawsuit; didn’t us, sir?”

From The Humourous Story of Farmer Bumpkin's Lawsuit by Richard Harris

Ay, sir, but he winned the game, an' that's aye a loss for Geordie; he aye tak's himsel' to the tavern when he wins.

From St. Cuthbert's by Robert E. Knowles

Kane has written himself into Bayern legend since joining from Spurs for £86m in August 2023, scoring 102 goals in 102 Bundesliga matches, winning two league titles and three successive Golden Boot awards.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

Darius Garland had 26 points and seven assists to pace the Clippers, who have lost seven games in a row since winning their season opener Oct.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

Last night’s wins could put half of the nation’s proposed data centers under stricter oversight with candidates supporting a slowdown winning at state and local levels, Bloomberg reports.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

He appears to have energized Black voters furious over a Supreme Court decision that could let Republicans eliminate Mississippi’s only majority-Black congressional district while also winning over about a quarter of the white electorate.

From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2026

He was psychically injured from not winning the tournament, and he couldn’t eradicate the sting of his four bitter losses—robberies, he called them—to Tal.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

It won the inaugural Fifa Puskas award for goal of the year.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

Daiwa trims the stock’s target price to 72,700 won from 77,100 won and keeps an underperform rating.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

“That was sort of a defining battle between North and South, but nobody won it. It was just that the lines had been drawn, and those lines still stand today.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

Reverend Frederick Haynes III won Crockett’s endorsement to succeed her in the heavily Democratic 30th District.

From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2026

She had gambled on the family’s foolishness and self-delusion, and she had won by a length, as they say at the Derby.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood


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