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Recent Examples of tourney Eight Big 12 teams will make the tourney, Lunardi projects. Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 25 Sep. 2025 Scrappy Eastlake also finished a solid tourney tied for third following a 25-15, 25-21 loss to Bishop’s in the gold semifinals. Tim Meehan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Sep. 2025 His inclusion in the tourney should in no way be translated as a negative in how the team views him. Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 11 Sep. 2025 The Northern Irishman, who clinched the title here back in 2016, leads the field alongside Team Europe Ryder Cup teammates Tyrrell Hatton and native son Shane Lowry, who triumphed in this tourney as an amateur in 2009. Mike Dojc, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for tourney
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Noun
  • Baseball was played as an Olympic sport from 1992 until 2008 and in 2021, and in those years, only minor league players outside each club’s 40-man rosters or free agents were able to participate in the Olympic baseball tournament.
    Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Grand Canyon has played in the last three NCAA tournaments, but takes a step up in competition with its move to the Mountain West Conference this season.
    Ben Verbrugge, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Through seven games, Mahomes has gotten off to one of his best starts in recent memory.
    Cole Sullivan, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Penguins captain Sidney Crosby, who became the ninth player in NHL history to score 1,700 points, said the team found out about the fall after the game.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 28 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The event orbited around a panel, moderated by TIME’s editor-in-chief Sam Jacobs, that discussed how AI could shape the future of fashion—particularly from a customer’s perspective.
    Tharin Pillay, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
  • In any event, that shows you who is pulling the strings over there.
    Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Only a few months ago Salah was deservedly collecting a stack of individual awards after a remarkable campaign which yielded 57 goal involvements (34 goals, 23 assists) in all competitions.
    James Pearce, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The Courier Journal caught up with Zipperle to find out why Cornbread Hemp took home the New Ideas Award in the 2025 Top Workplaces competition.
    Olivia Evans, Louisville Courier Journal, 23 Oct. 2025

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“Tourney.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tourney. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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