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play·off

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. playoffnoun

    any final competition to determine a championship

Wiktionary

  1. playoffnoun

    A final game in a series needed to break a tie.

  2. playoffnoun

    A short series of games to select a league champion.

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  1. playoff

    A playoff is a competition or series of contests that determines the champion or winner of a sports event, tournament, or league. This happens after the regular season and typically involves teams or participants with the highest rankings or scores.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of playoff in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of playoff in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of playoff in a Sentence

  1. American Dustin Johnson:

    In the playoff, I hit good shots, he just holed a long putt there on 14. So you know, hats off to him. It wasn't like I did anything wrong. I have no bad vibes or anything here. I love coming back here.

  2. Florida State:

    One of the harder things to do is to judge what the future of college football is going to be, if you look and say, ‘ OK, six years ago, we’re going to have a playoff and this is how they’re going to judge it and evaluate the playoff. ’ It’s hard to judge that in the future, that far.

  3. Stephen Curry:

    It wasn't an easy game, obviously, we really had to battle all the way to the end. Klay hit a huge shot, and we got a big stop at the end of regulation. We used that momentum into overtime. The defense really carried us in overtime. It was a playoff kind of atmosphere. It was good.

  4. Bob Bowlsby:

    This was a hard day, and I think all of us are tired and we came away from it with the feeling that we made enough progress to keep moving forward and that the expansion of the playoff, we’re very near consensus that we believe it ought to get larger.

  5. Reilly Smith:

    A lot of frustration when you come out in a playoff game like that, everyone’s pretty upset about it, and the best thing you can do is try to learn from it and make your next shift your best.

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