scorekeeper
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First published in 2002, the scorecard serves as what S&P asserts to be “the de facto scorekeeper of the long-standing active versus passive debate.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2025
“I don’t know if they have Brooks Robinson as a scorekeeper here or what.”
From Washington Times ● Oct. 5, 2023
The Congressional Budget Office, the official scorekeeper, in February 2021 estimated the budget deficit would fall dramatically in fiscal 2021 and 2022 because emergency pandemic spending would lapse.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 23, 2022
An analysis by the Joint Committee on Taxation, a congressional nonpartisan scorekeeper for tax legislation, suggests that the bill would raise about $70 billion over 10 years.
From New York Times ● Aug. 2, 2022
If the boxmaster could not catch the bird, the scorekeeper would cry, “Fire!” and the shooter would.
From "Wringer" by Jerry Spinelli
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