as in tournament
a competitive encounter between individuals or groups carried on for amusement, exercise, or in pursuit of a prize
progressed to the final round of the tennis tourney
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Recent Examples of tourney
The 6-6 Lee has 33 points and 19 rebounds while playing only 43 minutes combined in K-State’s two tourney games, after missing 12 of the previous 13 games with a foot injury.
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Stephen Hawkins, Denver Post, 26 Mar. 2025
Iowa seeks its first tourney glory post-Caitlin Clark, tangling with Raegan Beers and Oklahoma in the third game before a tight 4-5 draw between Maryland and Alabama at College Park.
—Steven Louis Goldstein, The Athletic, 24 Mar. 2025
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
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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Stephen Hawkins, Denver Post, 26 Mar. 2025
Iowa seeks its first tourney glory post-Caitlin Clark, tangling with Raegan Beers and Oklahoma in the third game before a tight 4-5 draw between Maryland and Alabama at College Park.
—Steven Louis Goldstein, The Athletic, 24 Mar. 2025
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
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tourney
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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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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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Clemence played in 24 games during KU’s NCAA title season of 2021-22.—
Gary Bedore,
Kansas City Star,
14 Apr. 2025
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Profar joins a long list of big leaguers who have tested positive for PEDs and will eventually return to the game as if nothing happened.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Apr. 2025
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These events devastate local communities not just as the tragedy unfolds but in its aftermath.—
Shoshi Parks,
Smithsonian Magazine,
14 Apr. 2025
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Season 2 picks up five years after the events of Season 1.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Apr. 2025
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The major driver for the decline in coal use is the economic competition with cheaper and cleaner fuels, such as natural gas and renewables, Ryna Cui, research director for the Center for Global Sustainability at the University of Maryland, told ABC News.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
10 Apr. 2025
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Another directorial debut, the French drama Partir un Jour from first-timer Amélie Bonnin, will open this year’s festival, screening out of competition.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Apr. 2025
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“Tourney.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tourney. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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