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📚🏆 You’re looking at the moment 14-year-old Shrey of San Bernardino, California, became the 2026 Scripps National Spelling Bee champion.
The title came down to just the third Spell-off in Bee history, where Shrey correctly spelled 32 words in 90 seconds, setting a new record for the tiebreaker format. His winning word: bromocriptine.

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