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Word: rackingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Although undiagnosed dyslexia had prevented him from learning to read until he was in the third grade, by high school David was a pretty good student, an excellent debater and so proficient a bridge player that he hired himself out as a paid tournament partner for adults trying to rack up master points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Get Me Boies! | 12/25/2000 | See Source »

...whether it still makes sense today. I tried to convince her that if her schoolmates were setting up a system to elect a student president, they might give each class one vote so that the candidates would spend time appealing to all grade levels rather than just trying to rack up votes among friends their age. That didn't convince her, but she did agree that if those were the rules, then you should abide by them once the results were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Our Readers: The First Draft of History | 11/20/2000 | See Source »

Both opponents are hovering at the bottom of the Ivy League standings, and they could potentially give the Crimson an opportunity to rack up another two wins this weekend...

Author: By Michael C. Sabala, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Women's Volleyball Evens the Score | 10/25/2000 | See Source »

...rather than simply an executive order. But once electoral concerns recede next year - and if Castro avoids any high-profile outrage - the momentum on the issue is likely to swing back to the agriculture and business groups lobbying Capitol Hill to end the embargo. Until then, expect Castro to rack up the mileage on his running shoes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Castro Makes Hay in Embargo's Twilight | 10/19/2000 | See Source »

...recall a single basketball game I ever played in as a kid. What I do remember is the romantic matter: Saturday-morning practices; walking, loping four blocks to the school gym; the sun glow on the court, shot through the wire-mesh-covered windows; lifting the ball from the rack; the sleepy-eyed dreams; ball echoes on wood; body rises; arc of flight; endless flight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Old Great Gatsby, Post-Olympics Blues | 10/16/2000 | See Source »

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