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Many borrowers found out after making what they thought were qualifying payments that they weren’t on track to get rid of their debt.

From Washington Post • Aug. 26, 2022

Krumpe: They were so convinced they were qualifying for the World Cup, they got all their artists to record World Cup songs, and were playing them on the radio.

From The Guardian • Jun. 10, 2015

At the time, Joey Dunlop was the TT Formula One motorcycling champion and Billy Bingham's Northern Ireland were qualifying for a second successive World Cup finals.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2015

The Sooners ran through everything as though they were qualifying for the Olympic 100-meter-dash final.

From Time Magazine Archive

Other women could do it with impunity--if they didn't have an infatuated man in tow at a restaurant, they'd be stared at, people would ask whether they were qualifying for a nunnery--but Auriol was different.

From The Mountebank by Locke, William John