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racked up

verb

past tense of rack up

as in scored

to gain (as points or runs in a game) as credit towards one's total number of points having racked up a huge number of points in the short program, the figure skater would have to have a disastrous long program in order to miss out on a medal

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to obtain (as a goal) through effort racked up their second consecutive Super Bowl victory

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Recent Examples of racked up Taylor racked up 360 yards and three touchdowns as the leader of Jeff Lebby’s veer-and-shoot offense. — Pj Green september 27, Kansas City Star, 27 Sep. 2026 Chalk racked up 159 rushing yards, his fifth straight game over 100, and scored twice on the ground. — ABC News, 26 Sep. 2026 The city racked up 53 traffic deaths in 2025, the highest in a decade, and 32 bike/pedestrian and e-scooter deaths. — Barbara Kingsley-Wilson, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026 In 2024, the brand launched Get Ready With Music, The Album, a compilation that racked up views and streams in record numbers across Spotify and YouTube. — Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2026 The Bears racked up yards and points, putting up 59 points on the Panthers. — Outkick, FOXNews.com, 20 Sep. 2026 Wideout Lucius Anderson racked up 155 yards of his own on nine catches. — Kels Dayton, Hartford Courant, 19 Sep. 2026 Jaxon Smith-Njigba racked up the eighth-most receiving yards in a single season in NFL history (1,793) last season, winning Offensive Player of the Year. — Andrew Destin, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026 Memphis racked up an impressive 983 yards of offense across those two games, including 335 yards on the ground against Arkansas State. — Idaho Statesman, 8 Sep. 2026

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Knight, senior Jaivian Thomas and fifth-year player Anthony Woods all run north of five yards per carry, contribute in the receiving and run blocking departments and have scored at least three touchdowns apiece.

— Connor Dullinger, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2026
Beabadoobee scored her first Top 10 album with Pylon, which bows at Number Seven.

— Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2026

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While spacecraft-to-spacecraft cryogenic refuelling is yet to be achieved, the ability to refuel storable chemical propellant is still a game-changer.

— Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 27 Sep. 2026
Mid-round, golfers head to the Halfway House for burger dogs and fish tacos, and the Links Margarita has apparently achieved something close to cult status among regulars.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Sep. 2026

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Yann LeCun won the 2018 Turing Award—computer science’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize—along with fellow AI researchers Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio for their work on deep learning, the neural network technology that underpins today’s AI boom.

— Emily Forlini, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2026
Under Kreiz, Mattel also has won new or renewed entertainment licenses, including Disney Princess and Frozen, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Toy Story, KPop Demon Hunters and DC.

— Todd Spangler, Variety, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of won

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In July, Anthropic described three instances where its Claude models accessed the internet during an evaluation and gained unauthorized access to the real systems of three different organizations.

— Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 29 Sep. 2026
Lindvall gained experience with Ludovic de Saint Sernin and the Swedish Fashion Council; Idink worked with independent designer showrooms.

— Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 29 Sep. 2026

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Raffles Bali also takes a responsible approach to waste management, using compost fertilizer made from kitchen and landscape waste and repurposing calcium carbonate-rich eggshells from the restaurants for organic fertilizer in the herb garden.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Oct. 2026
Like prediction markets, their power lay as much in predication as prediction, in legislating what can be asked, priced, and made real—or made valuable as art assets.

— Simon Denny, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026

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