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And similar to hockey, penalties can lead to power play situations in which one team is undermanned.—Sacbee.com, 3 Nov. 2025 Of course, the key is to meld all three of those identities into one, a hockey Voltron of utter dominance.—Mark Lazerus, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2025 That forced Florida to play extra hockey for the second straight game.—Adam H. Beasley, Miami Herald, 2 Nov. 2025 Marchand, 37, offered his hockey expertise to the March & Mill Co.—Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for hockey
Word History
Etymology
perhaps from Middle French hoquet shepherd's crook, diminutive of hoc hook, of Germanic origin; akin to Old English hōc hook
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