champ
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Could you stack 12 cups in under two seconds to become a European champ?
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
In this corner, the reigning heavyweight champ: a version of every Oscar-baiting, prestige movie you’ve ever seen.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026
A semifinal loss at Wimbledon to eventual champ Sinner.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
The childhood sports idols for my generation of cousins were Dodgers pitcher Fernando Valenzuela and boxing champ Julio César Chávez, not Mexican soccer legends Hugo Sánchez and Jorge Campos.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
Dawn Celeste claims to be the gin rummy champ of the century.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
He was the pivot for the 1969-70 sharp-passing NBA champs, and I can still see him limping out for the famous Game 7.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Arguably, the 1951 championship is extra important here because it was an L.A. title, while the 1999 Super Bowl champs played in St. Louis.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026
"I've never done a home champs before so to have the crowd shout 'Abbie Donnelly' was an incredible experience."
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
Palisades 62, Eastvale Roosevelt 56: The City Section Open Division champs advanced to the Division II regional semifinal, knocking off the top-seeded defending state champion Mustangs on the road.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2026
Big Creek kept winning, and the people in charge of high-school football up in Charleston kept saying it didn’t matter—there was no way we were going to be state champs.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
The vampirelike lamprey, sneaking into the Great Lakes in the 19th century, gradually champed its way through the fish population.
From New York Times ● Feb. 29, 2016
Gung-ho Lehman bankers champed at Japanese conservatism and bureaucracy, while Nomura veterans chafed at how much Lehman staff were paid.
From Reuters ● Jul. 24, 2015
In the inner courtyard of Buckingham Palace eight beautiful horses champed impatiently at their bits.
From Time Magazine Archive
Weatherbound, airplane pilots chafed and champed until dawn.
From Time Magazine Archive
There came a low word of command "Halt!" then a moment of horsey noises—nostrils blowing, hoofs pawing, bits being champed, necks being patted.
From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis
We know that many states are already champing at the bit to do that.
From Slate ● Apr. 30, 2026
“We’re champing at the bit to get the data,” one FAA official in Washington said at the time, as days stretched on after the crash without a black-box readout.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
After years of contributing to championship-caliber teams, Plum is champing at the bit to lead her own squad.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2025
They are champing at the bit to memorialize him, but Fife’s motives in agreeing are not purely about the film.
From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2024
Kyro’s plan had me not run at all for two days, and now I’m champing at the bit.
From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen
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