scorekeeper
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First published in 2002, the scorecard serves as what S&P asserts to be “the de facto scorekeeper of the long-standing active versus passive debate.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2025
“I don’t know if they have Brooks Robinson as a scorekeeper here or what.”
From Washington Times • Oct. 5, 2023
The Congressional Budget Office, the official scorekeeper, in February 2021 estimated the budget deficit would fall dramatically in fiscal 2021 and 2022 because emergency pandemic spending would lapse.
From Washington Post • Sep. 23, 2022
The office, created in 1974 as Congress’ nonpartisan fiscal scorekeeper, is working on a 10-year cost estimate of the bill and its component spending and tax proposals.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 12, 2021
Then all lines were erased and a new scorekeeper was picked out.
From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls
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