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Recent Examples of also-ran
Gwendolyn Brooks, Chicago’s Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, wrote of life’s also-rans
Gwendolyn Brooks grew up in a South Side house full of books and was a poet from an early age, eventually becoming the first Black to win a Pulitzer Prize in poetry.
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Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 1 May 2025
The idea is not to fill the Kentucky Derby gate with also-rans.
—Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 30 Apr. 2025
The anticlimactic contest between two West also-rans missing three All-Stars tips off at 7 p.m. PT.
—David Faris, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Apr. 2025
As the team’s First Nations players, fans, and also-rans shape their lives beyond the ice, generational trauma, addiction, and a paucity of choices loom large.
—Monitor Contributors, Christian Science Monitor, 11 Apr. 2025
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Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 1 May 2025
The idea is not to fill the Kentucky Derby gate with also-rans.
—Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 30 Apr. 2025
The anticlimactic contest between two West also-rans missing three All-Stars tips off at 7 p.m. PT.
—David Faris, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Apr. 2025
As the team’s First Nations players, fans, and also-rans shape their lives beyond the ice, generational trauma, addiction, and a paucity of choices loom large.
—Monitor Contributors, Christian Science Monitor, 11 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for also-ran
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Sun-soaked, punk rock ’70s California, a fraught family safari in Africa, a frustrated has-been and a digital future portrayed in a PowerPoint presentation show how disparate lives can affect each other.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Apr. 2025
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Her being nominated for playing a grotesque has-been is, at the very least, a delicious irony.—
Tom Gliatto,
People.com,
2 Mar. 2025
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Unlike last year, when a few entrants dropped out because of the weather, this year every entrant showed up.—
Hank Beckman,
Chicago Tribune,
2 June 2025
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MarketsandMarkets sees entrepreneurial new entrants to the sector as playing a major role in accelerating innovation.—
David Prosser,
Forbes.com,
2 June 2025
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Another high-profile entry in the Cold Case series was the murder of Jon Benet Ramsey, as the series focuses on well, Cold Cases that went unsolved, as the name suggests.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2025
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As for the boys, having double the number of entries isn’t that surprising as the section has three vaulters over 16-feet among the top 9 in the state.—
Steve Brand,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
27 May 2025
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“Also-ran.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/also-ran. Accessed 6 Jun. 2025.
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