Thesaurus results for TOURNEY

tourney

noun

ˈtu̇r-nē

Definition of tourney

as in tournament

a competitive encounter between individuals or groups carried on for amusement, exercise, or in pursuit of a prize progressed to the final round of the tennis tourney

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Recent Examples of tourney Persuade your fellow players to side with your silly and strongly held opinions in this town hall talk-’em-up tourney. — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 19 Aug. 2026 Sebastian Salazar and Jess Sims interview the Little Leaguers and share stories from around the tourney. — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026 The tour previously called off a June tourney in New Orleans. — Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 17 Aug. 2026 Ultimately, she was greeted by the tourney namesake for the awards. — Glae Thien, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for tourney

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Clark made her first appearance in a major international tournament this month while helping the United States win its fifth consecutive World Cup championship.

— Jackson Thompson OutKick, FOXNews.com, 19 Sep. 2026
Perception set up a dummy news site and created fake social-media accounts highlighting the tournament’s amenities, which included kosher food in stadiums.

— Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of tournament

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In the demo, Meta showed people wearing the glasses while watching an NBA game and multitasking between applications.

— Sebastian Herrera, Fortune, 24 Sep. 2026
More than 75 games are expected to support hand-gesture controls at launch, while Xbox Cloud Gaming will provide access to additional games.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of game

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Meta also says the platform will support more than 100 immersive live sports events each year through partners including ESPN and TNT Sports.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 24 Sep. 2026
The Hugging Face hack may have prompted an internal review, during which OpenAI also discovered the Australian website breach, although the company did not explicitly link the two events in its statement.

— Emily Forlini, Fortune, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of event

Noun

On September 18, the family of four attended an event for Athlos, Ohanian’s women-only track and field competition.

— Juliana Ukiomogbe, InStyle, 18 Sep. 2026
Related The upcoming installment of mystery competition show revealed the news in a video theatrically narrated by host Alan Cumming.

— Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of competition

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