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Recent Examples of Synonyms for athletics
Noun
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After Kornacki became a pop culture sensation during the 2020 election, NBC expanded his role to sports in 2021.—
Stephen Battaglio,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Apr. 2025 -
Georgia lawmakers on Monday sent legislation to bar transgender student-athletes from participating in girls’ and women’s sports to Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, who is expected to sign the measure into law.—
Brooke Migdon,
The Hill,
1 Apr. 2025
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The Kings defeated the Golden State Warriors in the first round of the play-in tournament before losing to the New Orleans Pelicans in a game that would have sent them to the playoffs as the No.—
Jason Anderson,
Sacbee.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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The Heat can finish the regular season anywhere between eighth and 10th place in the East, as the NBA’s play-in tournament features the seventh-through-10th-place teams competing for the final two playoff seeds in each conference.—
Anthony Chiang,
Miami Herald,
10 Apr. 2025
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Start before your competition Start looking before your competition heats up.—
Phil Blair,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
31 Mar. 2025
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The commission has sought to bolster E.U. e-commerce sales competition while targeting companies selling unsafe and counterfeit products.—
Glenn Taylor,
Sourcing Journal,
31 Mar. 2025
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After the beating, a long pan stalks Killian, who manages to get in his car and drive to a bodybuilding competition.—
Doreen St. Félix,
New Yorker,
5 Apr. 2025
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This will test the Jonathan Majors bodybuilding psychodrama that debuted at Sundance in 2023 but was derailed by abuse accusations against its star after winning the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Creative Vision and a distribution deal with Searchlight Pictures, which dropped it.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
21 Mar. 2025
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Your Next Read JuJu Watkins’ absence from March Madness hurts USC and pains women’s basketball College hoops business is booming despite quiet tourneys.—
Chantel Jennings,
New York Times,
27 Mar. 2025
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South Dakota State has qualified for the tourney 13 times since 2008-09, but has advanced past the first weekend just once.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
The Athletic,
24 Mar. 2025
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However, men beat women in just one metric: physical activity.—
Kaitlin Sullivan,
Health,
2 Apr. 2025
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Monday’s festivities featured a mix of activities celebrating the A’s past, while also looking toward the future.—
Mathew Miranda,
Sacbee.com,
1 Apr. 2025
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The Cougars are still looking for the program’s first national championship in men’s basketball.—
Kevin Dotson,
CNN Money,
8 Apr. 2025
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Last year’s women’s NCAA championship game drew a bigger television audience than the men’s title game for the first time, with an average of 18.9 million viewers watching undefeated South Carolina beat Iowa and superstar Caitlin Clark.—
Alanis Thames,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Apr. 2025
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Another concern with the play is injury potential for all players at the line of the scrimmage.—
Josh Hammer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Apr. 2025
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Keys, a 6-foot-3, 175-pound cornerback from Fletcher High in Neptune Beach, committed to the Knights on Saturday following the team’s first scrimmage of spring camp.—
Matt Murschel,
The Orlando Sentinel,
31 Mar. 2025
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“Athletics.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/athletics. Accessed 14 Apr. 2025.
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