champion

For week seven, he takes on former heavyweight boxing world champion Fabio Wardley, who supports Ipswich Town.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

Prime Minister Micheal Martin is expected to champion Ireland's role as a hub for the development of AI.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

All of a sudden, Bass was a staggering champion lunging at a revived Raman, who swung and stung and ducked the way only a hungry up-and-comer can.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

The seven-time Grand Slam champion was below the level he showed in winning the Japan Open last week as he produced a string of uncharacteristic errors.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

It’d been so long since I’d talked to Mom that I could’ve become a world champion chocolatier and she’d never have known.

From "Keep It Together, Keiko Carter" by Debbi Michiko Florence

Plenty of people outside of the Dodgers’ downcast clubhouse Thursday evening saw the Brewers’ four-game sweep of the defending back-to-back champions as the fall of a dynasty.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Global homegrown champions reinforce the country’s image as a nation of just nine million people that punches above its weight.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

These champions of “free thought” landed on boldness and strength as guiding stars.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026

The back-to-back European champions sliced through City with astonishing ease to take a 3-0 lead into half-time, and were still able to score another despite a spirited second-half fightback from the Premier League leaders.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

When I looked at the hairball on the payload, I didn’t see the eighth grade president; I saw the Super Bowl champions.

From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman

To the last, Mr. Levin argues, Shaw cared more about “military concerns” than the “moral crusade” championed by his parents.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

The project at Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh state, a port often called Vizag, is championed by India as a cornerstone of its technological ambitions.

From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026

Politicians who once championed the AI infrastructure build-out have changed their tunes right as companies are pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into ramping up computing capacity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

McKinney is endorsed by the city’s powerful police union and championed by L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

It is confusing that my family was not the poor to be championed.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston

Now he is championing a "people-led" movement that promotes the protection of human rights and rule of law as enshrined in the constitution.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

In retrospect, the shift from exalting those canceled for words to championing those canceled for alleged criminal behavior was inevitable.

From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026

He gravitated toward politicians championing social justice causes, managing the first congressional campaign for Congressman Esteban Torres, himself a former labor activist.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

Borza spent 20 years championing nearly every effort to memorialize the passengers and crew members who stormed the cockpit, preventing the hijackers from reaching Washington, D.C., and their presumed target, the Capitol.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

London's fervent condemnation of capitalist society, his glorification of the primordial world, his championing of the great unwashed—all of it mirrored McCandless s passions.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer