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championship

noun

ˈcham-pē-ən-ˌship

Definition of championship

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the position occupied by the one who comes in first in a competition the Yankees have won the championship many times

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Recent Examples of championship Loyola has one of the best lacrosse programs in the state, winning last season’s Southern Section championship. — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026 Mahomes, Andy Reid and company had gone to seven straight AFC championship games, five Super Bowls and won three of them during an incredible run from 2018-24. — Andy Scholes, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2026 More than 25 percent of those came in the playoffs as the Philadelphia 76ers took game 7 in their first-round matchup against a team that captured a championship just two years ago. — Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 9 Sep. 2026 By winning the conference championship, the Jackets would have had their first berth in the College Football Playoff. — Ken Sugiura, AJC.com, 9 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for championship

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That led to a two-year stint as offensive coordinator with the Falcons and then a return to Tuscaloosa for two more seasons as OC, helping Saban win the last of his six national titles with the Crimson Tide in 2020.

— Ralph D. Russo, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
The title story from her short story collection, Waiting for the Long Night Moon, won the 2021 Indigenous Voices Award for Unpublished Prose.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2026

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