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country club

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as in service club

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Recent Examples of country club On the line is Jay McGreevy, who owned a company that sold kitchen appliances and befriended Ditka and many star Chicago athletes through endorsements and rounds of golf at an exclusive country club. — Dan Pompei, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026 Firefighters were still pouring water on the Lochmoor Club in Grosse Pointe Woods and the smell of the burning was still in the air the morning after a fire tore through the historic country club and golf course. — Darcie Moran, Freep.com, 10 Sep. 2026 The fire comes more than four years after another Metro Detroit country club, Oakland Hills Country Club, was engulfed in flames. — Dejanay Booth-Singleton, CBS News, 9 Sep. 2026 This checked blouse and twill shorts fit the tournament’s country club-adjacent vibe while remaining comfortable enough to wear all day. — Julia Morlino, Travel + Leisure, 9 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for country club

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Optimist International is one of the world’s largest service club organizations with over 40,000 adult and youth members in over 1,600 clubs in the United States, Canada, the Caribbean and Mexico, Africa, Europe, Asia, and throughout the world.

— News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 May 2026
The Rotary took the helm as the parade’s organizer in 2021, with proceeds raised through entry fees and sponsorships distributed to charities supported by the nonprofit service club.

— Carolyn Stein, Chicago Tribune, 23 Feb. 2026

Definition of service club

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Recipients over the years have included major and minor league coaches, chefs, clubhouse attendants, parking lot security guards, the people who liaise with the players’ wives, and the ushers who staff the family section in the stands.

— Stephanie Apstein, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2026
These included updating the warming hut and clubhouse and adding a mountain bike park.

— Lisa Boone, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2026

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Manfred says small-market success is rare, while the union argues the Rays-Brewers World Series matchup shows baseball can work without a cap.

— Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2026
Alaska’s core constituency is composed of Natives, fishermen, rural legislators, and unions, with some chamber-of-commerce types mixed in.

— Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2026

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