Summer Games
Americanplural noun
Example Sentences
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The Summer Games are close - there were 44.7% female athletes in Paris two years ago - but just 26.1% of the competitors in Milan-Cortina are women.
From BBC • Mar. 10, 2026
The last Olympiad was the 2024 Summer Games in Rome.
From Salon • Feb. 22, 2026
Hill’s father Virgil, a boxer, earned a silver medal at the 1984 Summer Games.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2026
According to an Oxford University study, the last three Summer Games cost $51 billion in 2022 dollars and exceeded budgets by 185%, not including infrastructure projects such as roads, railways and airports.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026
Next to going to the 2016 Summer Games in Rio, doing college gymnastics was my most heartfelt dream.
From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles
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