titleholder
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Uefa says that a European titleholder must get European football, but there is no clause to cover this in the MCO regulations.
From BBC • Apr. 27, 2026
They no longer manage demolition, but they are the titleholder to publicly-owned land, and are still the largest single landowner in the city of Detroit.
From Salon • Mar. 6, 2026
—Martin Scorsese, at 81, becomes Oscar’s oldest nominated director, streaking past former titleholder John Huston, who was 79 when nominated in 1986 for “Prizzi’s Honor.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 2024
After that comes the main event on what has been labeled the “Day of Reckoning” as Joshua, the former WBA, IBF and WBO titleholder, fights Otto Wallin, a New York-based Swedish journeyman.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 21, 2023
Twice champion of the USSR, he’d won the 1958 Portorož Interzonal, becoming a front runner to play the incumbent titleholder, Mikhail Botvinnik, for the World Championship in 1960.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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