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This is now the second time in a little over a year that Brooks has torn his ACL. Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2024 Read more Sacramento Kings Hornets Forward Suffers Season-Ending ACL Injury Crowder is a career 9.3 points per game scorer, along with 4.2 rebounds and 1.6 assists, and has shot 42 percent from the field and 34 percent from three in 803 total games. Dan Perry, Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2024 Dani Carvajal fell earlier to an ACL rupture that has also ended Eder Militao's season, and with the Spaniard's stand-in Lucas Vazquez out for a month, midfielder Fede Valverde will have to step up and put in a shift at right back. Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 24 Nov. 2024 At the 2013 World Championships, Vonn tore the ACL and MCL in her right knee and sustained a fracture in her right leg after a crash during the super-G. Later that year, she re-injured her ACL while training, and ultimately did not participate in the 2014 Winter Olympics. Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for ACL 

Word History

First Known Use

1981, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of ACL was in 1981

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“ACL.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ACL. Accessed 23 Dec. 2024.

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