plural tourneys
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Noun
progressed to the final round of the tennis tourney
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Glae Thien, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Jan. 2026
The play-in tourney features the seventh-through-10th-place teams competing for the final two playoff seeds in each conference.
—Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 24 Jan. 2026
Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Mar. 2025
The 2022-23 Big Ten regular season and tourney champs meet Saturday when No. 14 Indiana visits Iowa City.
—Michael Marot, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2024
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Noun
To accommodate both, the tourney moved up a month on the calendar, coinciding with the second week of the Australian Open.
—Glae Thien, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Jan. 2026
The play-in tourney features the seventh-through-10th-place teams competing for the final two playoff seeds in each conference.
—Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 24 Jan. 2026
Verb
The Big 12 regular season and tourney champs cruised past 16-seed SIU Edwardsville in the first round, but got a difficult test against 8-seed Gonzaga last Saturday.
—Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Mar. 2025
The 2022-23 Big Ten regular season and tourney champs meet Saturday when No. 14 Indiana visits Iowa City.
—Michael Marot, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2024
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“Tourney.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tourney. Accessed 26 Jan. 2026.
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