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NFL
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N.F.L. Nfl. nfl
English
Pronunciation
en /ɛn ɛf ɛl/
en en-us-NFL.ogg Mid-Atlantic US
en ɛl 3
Proper noun
en American football en w:National Football League.
en Wayne Sterling Youth poet laureate Amanda Gorman to recite poem before Super Bowl LV w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/27/us/amanda-gorman-super-bowl-trnd 2021-01-27 Amanda Gorman, the nation’s first-ever youth poet laureate who gained national acclaim at President Joe Biden’s inauguration, will recite an original poem before Super Bowl LV, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announced on Wednesday. https://web.archive.org/web/20210208000326/https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/27/us/amanda-gorman-super-bowl-trnd/
en Kevin Dotson NFL to take 10% stake in ESPN in new media rights deal w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/05/sport/espn-nfl-media-rights-deal-spt 2025-08-05 The NFL and ESPN announced a deal Tuesday that will see the league’s NFL Network and other media assets headed to the cable television giant in exchange for a 10% equity stake in the Disney-owned company. https://web.archive.org/web/20250814223733/https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/05/sport/espn-nfl-media-rights-deal-spt
en Newfoundland and Labrador.
Alternative forms
en N.F.L.
Derived terms
en NFLer
Noun
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en math en no free lunch applied to various restricting theorems.
en 2002 William A. Dembski No Free Lunch: Why Specified Complexity Cannot be Purchased Without Intelligence Rowman & Littlefield 9780742512979 https://books.google.com/books?id=fqRjYFhnbQwC&lpg=PA204&dq=%22NFL%22%20no%20free%20lunch&pg=PA204#v=onepage&q=%22NFL%22%20no%20free%20lunch&f=false 204 First off, let us be clear that the No Free Lunch theorems that underwrite the displacement problem apply with perfect generality—NFL applies to any information that might supplement a blind search, and not just to fitness functions.
en metonym chiefly UK American football.
en 2007 07 Running Times 64 Soon after Boston and London were over, two other dramatic races were playing out in my head [...] just as we enjoy the long term implications of a match result in baseball, NFL or soccer.
en 2017-03-16 In a neo-conservative era where parents have regressed by dressing their daughters as pink princesses, where toy stores segregate their merchandise according to ‘gender’, where women playing NFL in bikinis is ‘sport’, and where Miss Universe is every adolescent girl’s ambition, was I really that gullible to believe that Gen Y would radically commit engagement rings – and, hence, elaborate weddings – to the dumpster? Pearl Bullivant https://thebeast.com.au/other/shine-bright-like-a-diamond/# Shine Bright like a Diamond The Beast https://web.archive.org/web/20240614142501/https://thebeast.com.au/other/shine-bright-like-a-diamond/#
Anagrams
en fln FLN LFN
Spanish
es:
Etymology
es :bor en:NFL<t:National Football League> + 1
Pronunciation
ene efe ele +
Proper noun
f
es American football en NFL
es Pablo A. García Escorihuela Vuelve la NFL: estos son los 8 candidatos para la temporada 2025/2026 w:CNN en Español https://cnnespanol.cnn.com/2025/08/05/deportes/8-equipos-mirar-nfl-temporada-2025-orix 2025-09-02 El tiempo de pruebas se terminó. Después de tres semanas intensas de enfrentamientos de pretemporada, los 32 equipos de la NFL están listos para volver a la acción para la temporada 2025/2026, que comienza este jueves. https://web.archive.org/web/20250923175516/https://cnnespanol.cnn.com/2025/08/05/deportes/8-equipos-mirar-nfl-temporada-2025-orix