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as in ball games
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as in photo finishes
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There have been 74 pitchers who have started at least 440 ball games since 1920, and Kershaw is the only one who hasn’t surpassed triple-digit losses according to Baseball-Reference.—
Wayne G. McDonnell,
Forbes.com,
20 Sep. 2025 -
To start, there are no bicycles or ball games, no mirrors larger than the palm of one’s hand, and almost no personal property.—
Hillary Kelly,
The Atlantic,
20 Aug. 2025
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An argument could be made that the show could’ve used more confrontations between them.—
Grace Byron,
Vulture,
6 Oct. 2025
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Power meetings, sudden opportunities, or straight-up confrontations with authority figures may pop this week.—
Dossé-Via Trenou,
Refinery29,
5 Oct. 2025
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In one scene, real footage of Benjamin Netanyahu appears on the television of Anat’s father, who is suffering post-traumatic flashbacks from his own wars.—
Gershom Gorenberg,
The Atlantic,
3 Oct. 2025
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The reasons for that lack of credibility extend well beyond the campus speech wars of the past few decades.—
Jay Caspian Kang,
New Yorker,
3 Oct. 2025
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This sense of competition has caused countless promotions to create timeless matches and rivalries that have stood the test of time, whether your looking at the Territories Era, the Monday Night Wars between WWE and WCW, or the rivalry between NJPW and AJPW in Japan.—
Jeremy Hanna,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 2025
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What was one of the best rivalries in the 1980s and 90s has lost some of its luster more recently, with one or both of the programs being down for much of the last decade.—
Dan Santaromita,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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“Horse races.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/horse%20races. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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