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Ananya Vinay wins Scripps Spelling Bee

The 12-year-old from Fresno, California won the Scripps National Spelling Bee, taking home a $40,000 cash prize after correctly spelling the word marocain.

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Ananya Vinay wins Scripps Spelling Bee

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  1. Ananya Vinay wins Scripps Spelling Bee

  2. Ananya Vinay of Fresno, California celebrates after winning the 2017 Scripps National Spelling Bee at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland.

  3. Ananya Vinay celebrates with family after winning the 2017 Scripps National Spelling Bee. She said she felt "amazing" after defeating Rohan Rajeev, 14, of Edmond Oklahoma during the stirring 25-word championship round.

  4. Ananya Vinay celebrates after winning. Vinay plans to split the money with her 7-year-old brother and put it into her college account. "She had a deep passion for reading.

  5. Finalists Mira Dedhia, Rohan Rajeev and Ananya Vinay wait their turns to spell. The two determined spellers went back and forth for about 45 minutes, peeling off word after word in tense competition of spelling prowess.

  6. Rohan Sachdev of Cary, North Carolina reacts after misspelling a word. Competitors age 6 to 15 emerged from early spelling bees involving more than 11 million youths from all 50 U.S. states, U.S.

  7. Isabelle Stetka, 14, of Barto, Pennsylvania, spells a word. In earlier rounds, some spellers tripped over words including Corriedale, toreutics, cleidoic and panettone, weeding down the field headed for the finish of the 90th national Bee.

  8. Alex Iyer of San Antonio, Texas reacts after misspelling a word. REUTERS/Aaron P. Bernstein

  9. The youngest-ever competitor, Edith Fuller of Tulsa, Oklahoma, who turned 6 on April 22, was eliminated from the competition late on Wednesday. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

  10. Will Lourcey, 14, of Fort Worth, Texas, contemplates a word. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

  11. Erin Welch, 14, of Princess Anne, Maryland. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

  12. Sheridan Hennessy, 11, of Cincinnati, Ohio. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

  13. Contestants wait their turn. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

  14. Julian Connaughton, 14, of Shohola, Pennsylvania. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

  15. Contestants wait their turn. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

  16. Daniel Larsen, 13, of Bloomington, Indiana. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

  17. Seated contestants watch. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

  18. Torah Smith, 12 of Fitchburg, Massachusetts. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

  19. Connor Lawrence, 14, of Keedysville, Maryland. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

  20. A combination picture shows Avril Regis, 14, of Pago Pago, American Samoa, watching competitors. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

  21. Jack Miller, 13, of Abilene, Texas, competes. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

  22. Amelia Ballingall, 13, of Manchester, New Hampshire. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

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