Noun
progressed to the final round of the tennis tourney
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The lopsided defeat spoke loudly to those who believe that tourney’s expansion from 32 to 48 teams was folly.—Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 21 June 2026 The second edition of the Grannies International tourney in 2025 looked poised to be even bigger.—Ryan Lenora Brown, NPR, 14 June 2026
Verb
Saturday night’s seventh-inning parade of runs started when tourney most outstanding player Tyson LeBlanc singled in Kansas teammate Daniel Osoria from third base.—Gary Bedore
may 23, Kansas City Star, 23 May 2026 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 See All Example Sentences for tourney
Word History
Etymology
Verb
Middle English, from Anglo-French torneier, to twist, whirl around, fight, tourney, from tur, tourn turning, circuit