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championship

A championship is a contest to decide which person or team is best at a sport. Gene Tunney won the world heavyweight boxing championship from Jack Dempsey.

championship

(= title) the status of being a champion he held the title for two years a competition at which a champion is chosen (= backing) the act of providing approval and support his vigorous backing of the conservatives got him in trouble with progressives

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Simple sentences

We lost with Russia on Ice Hockey World Championship 2019.
Which team is the most likely to win the championship?
The team won the championship for five years running.
The player won the championship three times in a row.
The whole soccer team was on cloud nine after winning the championship.
Both men and women won the tennis championship.
He was in such a good mood when his team won the championship.
Sometimes I wonder when the first world championship in cyberbullying will take place.
How many teams participated in the championship?
The German athletes won four gold medals at the luge world championship in Canada.
Your team doesn't have a prayer to win the championship game.
For sure, she'll win the championship in the tournament.
His beating four competitors in a row won our high school team the championship.
The World Football Championship will take place in Kazan.
Tom won the championship.
The Miami Heat won the NBA championship.
We won the championship.
We hope to win the championship.
We've got the championship in our pocket.
We lost to Russia in the Ice Hockey World Championship 2019.

Movie subtitles

The owners of the dogs nipping at Horace's heels for the championship would all have loved to see him out of the running.
For the Championship tonight!
A young upstart named Jack Dempsey will meet Jess Willard for the heavyweight championship of the world.
Championship.
World's championship.
Unless the accused rejects the offer of championship.
You've still got time to help us win the championship.
Jack Cushingham and Larry Blake will play Frank de Notta and Mike Cohen for the pinochle championship.
Suppose you help us escape. We'll have everything waiting for you in Madison Square Garden. For the heavyweight wrestling championship of the world.
Next week, in Philadelphia Brannen and Dundee will meet in a 15-round bout for the heavyweight championship of the world.
We wanna win the championship, but we don't want a repetition of tonight.
New York is proud and honoured to have this heavyweight championship.
I promised a crack at the heavyweight championship.
And I'm fighting Tony Zale for the championship of the world.
But you had this boy too close to the championship.
All we want is the championship.
Morgan wants to give you a championship fight next month.
We signed for the championship bout next month.
Fifteen rounds of boxing for the heavyweight championship of the world.
Ladies and gentlemen, you've just witnessed a masterful exhibition of bag punching. by the undefeated marvel of the prize ring. and contender of the world's heavyweight championship, Killer Kane!
The championship started!
Championship?
Oh, no. It's for the championship.
We're having magnificent weather for the opening day of the Women 's National Match Play Championship.
You've lost a championship for us.
You made me lose the championship.
An appeal to God's judgment cannot be denied by common or canon law. Unless the accused rejects the offer of championship.
You've still got time to help uswin the championship.
Within twenty days begins the student cross country racing championship.
Respectable audience, contending the world championship two to three rounds with no time limit.
If you were on a championship team, maybe you could own a bar.
Are you shooting in the combat championship next week?
Would you be interested in fighting Apollo Creed for the world heavyweight championship?
I, uh. heard you were running in the Virginia championship, so I stopped over to wish you good luck.
I feel it's gonna be between me and Ken Waller. for the overall championship.
Master, I have been programmed with all Championship games since 1866.

News and current affairs

No wonder Fischer's quixotic pursuit of the championship led American policy mastermind Henry Kissinger to call Fischer and urge him not to back out, as he had threatened to do.
In the run-up to the championship, Fischer trounced two very good opponents with unheard of 6-0 scores, an astonishing result when so many grandmaster games end in draws.
I have never seen such harmony between the supporters of different nations as in this year's championship.
Wherever Japan's players went, they were met by hostile crowds, which culminated in the championship match with China before a huge - and hugely hostile - crowd in Beijing.
NEW YORK - Some of the more hysterical German newspapers blamed Germany's defeat against Italy in the semi-finals of the European championship on the fact that few players bothered to sing the national anthem.
What was striking during this European championship was the intimate collegiality between opposing players.
In May 2008, Russia won the world hockey championship, beating Canada.
In June, it almost won the Euro 2008 football championship, losing in the semi-finals to Spain.
MADRID - July will enter Spanish history as having started on a tremendous high, spurred by Spain's recent triumph in the 2012 Euro Soccer Championship.
Soon, potential chess sponsors began to balk at paying millions of dollars to host championship matches between humans.
Since the English Premier League was started in 1992, only one championship was not won by Manchester United, Arsenal, or Chelsea.
Poorer or smaller countries can hardly dream of winning a European championship, as Steaua (Romania), Red Star (Serbia), or Nottingham Forest (now languishing in the English third division) once did.
After France barely survived the tournament's first round, Zidane performed at the top of his game and led the team to the brink of a second World Cup championship.
KYIV - Politics and sports are often an incendiary mix, as the controversy now swirling around the Euro 2012 football championship, to be co-hosted by Ukraine and Poland, demonstrates.
When Holland beat Germany in the semi-finals of the 1988 European Championship, it was as though justice finally had been done.
Many blame the country's failure to qualify for this summer's European championship on the preponderance of foreign players in English club teams.
The World Cup championship in Brazil was another matter altogether.
If other Europeans emulated the German model, Europe would begin to look - and play - like a championship team.
The EU could even play a part in keeping the 2012 European Championship football finals on track.
And, to make matters worse, the French soccer team, whose World Cup victory in 1998 gave his predecessor Jacques Chirac a short respite and a passing popularity boom, was humiliated in June's Euro championship.
It thought itself the measure of all things European, in terms of both the European championship and the European Union.
The same night that Germany was thrashed by the Italians in the championship's semi-finals, German Chancellor Angela Merkel ran up against the limits of her own powers at the eurozone leaders' summit in Brussels.
Perhaps Kasparov would have won the rematch had it continued to a full 24 games (then the standard length of world championship matches).

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