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Recent Examples of placer
Dayne’s older brother, Dominic, was a two-time state placer at West Aurora — including last season’s runner-up finish as a senior — and is now wrestling in college at Ohio.
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Steve Millar, Chicago Tribune, 16 Feb. 2026
The left-hander has blown away his previous career highs in innings and strikeouts and is a lock to finish among the top placers in the American League Cy Young Award vote.
—Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 24 Sep. 2025
Aside from metal prices and some automation, placer mining has changed little over the past 125 years.
—Sara Miller Llana, Christian Science Monitor, 3 Sep. 2025
Jimena Nava Garcia, a Tavares ninth grader who ran with Red Sea as a middle schooler, was the girls first placer in 20:36.10.
Timber Creek edged Sanford Seminole 46-48 to win the Summertime boys title.
—Buddy Collings, The Orlando Sentinel, 20 Aug. 2025
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Steve Millar, Chicago Tribune, 16 Feb. 2026
The left-hander has blown away his previous career highs in innings and strikeouts and is a lock to finish among the top placers in the American League Cy Young Award vote.
—Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 24 Sep. 2025
Aside from metal prices and some automation, placer mining has changed little over the past 125 years.
—Sara Miller Llana, Christian Science Monitor, 3 Sep. 2025
Jimena Nava Garcia, a Tavares ninth grader who ran with Red Sea as a middle schooler, was the girls first placer in 20:36.10.
Timber Creek edged Sanford Seminole 46-48 to win the Summertime boys title.
—Buddy Collings, The Orlando Sentinel, 20 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for placer
Noun
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The Bulldogs, regular-season conference champs, need to win one more game, against the survivor of the Columbia-Brown game on Sunday.—
Dom Amore,
Hartford Courant,
17 May 2026
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Shorter races for three-year-olds later in the summer like the grade 1 Haskell at Monmouth Park in New Jersey will be likely targets for the Preakness champ.—
Danny Brewer,
Forbes.com,
17 May 2026
Noun
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Some draftees have an immediate impact—this year’s Super Bowl champions, the Seattle Seahawks, started two key players who were drafted last spring—but the process is mainly a means of incremental, long-term improvement.—
Dan Greene,
New Yorker,
18 May 2026
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The game’s newest major champion represents a refreshing and unchanging sense of self, bred by memories like those back in Wolverhampton, England.—
Gabby Herzig,
New York Times,
18 May 2026
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Boston was named one of the five finalist cities to host the 2028 DNC convention in March, along with Atlanta, Chicago, Denver and Philadelphia.—
Grace Zokovitch,
Boston Herald,
19 May 2026
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Making her feature screenwriting and directing debut with Is God Is, an adaptation of her play which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, Harris is behind one of the year’s wildest and most acclaimed films, sitting at a 97 percent freshness rating on Rotten Tomatoes.—
David Canfield,
HollywoodReporter,
18 May 2026
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Football, too, was brought to colonies by conquerors, only to be embraced by the conquered and remade anew.—
Franklin Leonard,
Vanity Fair,
14 May 2026
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But legend has it that despite the might of these ancient conquerors, pockets of Sardinia sometimes managed to defend themselves.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
7 May 2026
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“Placer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/placer. Accessed 20 May. 2026.
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