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Example sentences for: pre-game

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When I read about Eugenie's cosmetic surgery, I was stricken by a thought: "You mean IOC members can demand just about anything in exchange for their votes on an Olympic host city, and I chose to be a sportswriter ? I've settled for the Rangers' pre-game buffet all these years when I could've had a free nose job instead?
Sports junkies hoard trivia for the same reason political junkies lock their remotes on C-SPAN and Hollywood obsessives salivate over the Academy Awards pre-game show: Power.
School officials said one change will be that pre-game prayers will now be conducted without the coach.