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Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 11 Apr. 2024
On a night when Kansas City Royals ace Cole Ragans grinded through his start, the Royals got a lift from an unsung group.
—Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 10 Apr. 2024
So, after watching Glasnow exhaust every tantalizing weapon in his highly touted arsenal, Roberts let his new ace relax for the night’s final couple of innings.
—Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2024
The operation, which will be performed by Dr. Keith Meister in Texas, will be a hybrid surgery of UCL reconstruction with a brace — the same surgery Marlins ace Sandy Alcantara underwent in October.
—Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 7 Apr. 2024
Locals can be the ace in the hole for specialists curating bespoke trips.
—Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Apr. 2024
Luis Castillo is the ace of the staff and the most expensive after signing a five-year, $108 million contract extension before last season.
—Jack Magruder, Forbes, 30 Mar. 2024
No cause of death has been determined as yet for the eclectic six-string ace.
—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Mar. 2024
Even if users deny all the password reset requests—one user reported receiving more than one hundred requests on X, formerly known as Twitter—scammers have an ace up their sleeves.
—Jody Serrano / Gizmodo, Quartz, 27 Mar. 2024
Cai Cramer, Peoplemag, 4 Apr. 2024
Garcia, 24, hit a leadoff home run off Minnesota Twins ace Pablo Lopez.
—Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 28 Mar. 2024
Still, the songs ace the double-duty test, never repeating catchy choruses just to drill holes in our ears but to expand, modify and turn ideas in different directions.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2024
Nyad, Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One and Barbie aced the test because of lines of dialogue.
—Chloe Veltman, NPR, 1 Mar. 2024
Also in the room: Marlins ace Sandy Alcantara, the team’s Opening Day starter the past four seasons who will be sidelined for the 2024 season while rehabbing from Tommy John surgery.
—Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2024
Starting next January, any automaker that wants their motor vehicles to ace the group’s safety test will need to add more physical buttons and de-emphasize touch-sensitive controls.
—Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 6 Mar. 2024
The Dolphins are releasing cornerback and special teams ace Keion Crossen, a league source told the Miami Herald, in a move that will save them about $3 million in cap space.
—Daniel Oyefusi, Miami Herald, 5 Mar. 2024
Trump has repeatedly claimed to have aced cognitive tests, including one taken at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, but never formally released the results.
—Sara Dorn, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
Rolling Stone, 10 Aug. 2023
And that number doesn’t include C.J. Goodwin who is a special teams ace, but plays corner in a pinch.
—David Moore, Dallas News, 5 June 2023
In its pairing of ace British actors — Mark Rylance and Sally Hawkins — and in its strange-but-true tale of working-class Brits breaking the rules, Phantom recalls The Duke (also a Sony Pictures Classics release), although that recent Jim Broadbent–Helen Mirren starrer has a heavier undercurrent.
—Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 June 2022
The case for: Giants fans delighted in Rodón’s historic strikeout rate and would have loved to see the lefty, along with co-ace Logan Webb, pitch in a playoff series.
—John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Nov. 2022
An ace American skier who faltered and went home empty-handed.
—Ted Anthony, ajc, 21 Feb. 2022
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Word History
Noun (1)
Middle English as, borrowed from Anglo-French, going back to Latin ass-, ās "copper money piece (at first a pound, but progressively reduced to a half-ounce), pound unit of weight, unit," of uncertain origin
Note: The word ās has been compared within Latin to asser "wooden beam, pole, post" (generalized from a plural asserēs, from a singular *assis?) and assis, axis (by hypercorrection?) "plank, board," though any relationship is far from certain. A loanword from Etruscan?
Verb
derivative of ace entry 1
Adjective (1)
derivative of ace entry 1
Noun (2)
short for asexual, with spelling copying ace entry 1
Adjective (2)
from attributive use of ace entry 4
Noun (1)
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
Verb
1923, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Adjective (1)
1926, in the meaning defined above
Noun (2)
2008, in the meaning defined above
Adjective (2)
2009, in the meaning defined above
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“Ace.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ace. Accessed 16 Apr. 2024.
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