ace
noun
a playing card or die marked with or having the value indicated by a single spot.
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
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Those were deals between relatively equal countries who were acing globally significant threats from peer-sized adversaries.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 3, 2023