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the position occupied by the one who comes in first in a competition the Yankees have won the championship many times

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Recent Examples of championship The two conference championship games kick off Sunday. Becky Sullivan, NPR, 25 Jan. 2025 She is expected to attend her sixth postseason game on Sunday when the Chiefs face the Buffalo Bills, the last hurdle to playing for a history-making third consecutive Super Bowl championship. Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 25 Jan. 2025 However, there's no rule that says Cena's 17th world championship has to be in WWE. John Yoo and John Shu, Newsweek, 24 Jan. 2025 The two teams also met in the 1966 AFL championship game, with the winner getting to go up against Vince Lombardi's Green Bay Packers in the first Super Bowl (then called the first AFL–NFL World Championship Game ... Jim Reineking, USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for championship 

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“Championship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/championship. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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