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Example sentences for: champion

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Newsweek 's "The Brain's Last Stand" ponders the significance of chess champion Garry Kasparov's rematch with IBM's Deep Blue.
Conservatives habitually champion smaller government and tax cuts without explaining which programs would be reduced and which beneficiaries would suffer.
Riggs regrets that retired Tulsa attorney John Athens, a champion of legal aid, did not live to see how much the money has meant.
He also talked to Fred Hemmings, a Hawaiian surfing champion, Bob Backlund, a former pro wrestler, Noble Willingham, a television and movie actor, and others "from the lower rungs of the celebrity food chain."
I mean really: How could any champion of the First Amendment let such a deal go through?