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countdown

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as in preliminary

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Recent Examples of countdown After London, Harry will head north to Birmingham to mark the one-year countdown for the Invictus Games, which will be hosted in the city next July. — Jennifer Hassan, USA Today, 7 July 2026 The countdown has begun on these deals, so quit overthinking! — Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 6 July 2026 Harry is due to return to his home country to mark the one year countdown to celebrations of his Invictus Games, scheduled to take place in Birmingham, England, in July 2027. — Rachel Burchfield, InStyle, 6 July 2026 To keep up with the fast-moving aerial acts, the app features an adjustable countdown timer set to the official schedule. — Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 4 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for countdown

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The meet continues Thursday, a day consisting largely of women’s preliminaries, followed by men’s finals Friday and women’s finals Saturday.

— Mike Wilson, New York Times, 11 June 2026
Hernandez, now a Southern Section champion again, along with all the other winners will move onto the CIF preliminaries next Saturday to face the rest of the state's top female jumpers, with a chance to get back to the state finals.

— Ryan Gaydos OutKick, FOXNews.com, 19 May 2026

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The musical’s overture gives you a sense of the complexity that’s needed to make seeming simple and straightforward material really soar.

— Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 6 July 2026
But the issue Americans should be concerned with here really isn’t FIFA, which has entertained other similar overtures before, but rather its own sporting reputation.

— Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes.com, 5 July 2026

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Despite a nerve-wracking 1-0 start (before Bellingham knocked in a deuce), Jagger was seen looking grim and pacing around the VIP box.

— Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 14 July 2026
Mike Hughes didn’t need an OTA practice, let alone a season with 17 starts and the second-most interceptions by a rookie in franchise history, to know the Falcons landed an impact player in safety Xavier Watts last summer.

— Daniel Flick, AJC.com, 14 July 2026

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