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consolation prize

noun as in runner-up prize

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If he isn’t, the consolation prize is Henry or Austin Ekeler.

That should help produce a desperate battle for the playoffs over the rest of the schedule, since there’s almost no chance that the East’s runner-up could be good enough to snag a wild-card consolation prize if it doesn’t win the division.

That’s particularly true when a team snags an elite prospect like Buffalo did with Eichel, who has been more than merely the consolation prize behind fellow 2015 draftee and current Best Player in the NHL Connor McDavid.

There are few to no suitable free agent consolation prizes available when it comes to the available left tackles.

Darnold could then become something of a consolation prize, assuming another team still thinks he can turn things around.

For some parents no consolation prize is great enough to trade precious time with their families.

But he might have to settle for the best-foreign-film Oscar as a consolation prize.

Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

When Gerald Ford picked Nelson Rockefeller as vice president from 1974 to 1977, it was a consolation prize to a burned-out boom.

They left in a huff, taking all the computers and office equipment as a consolation prize.

Eternal punishment wasn't provided as a consolation prize for anybody, so far as I know.

As you see, he is no beauty, and he'll never wear the stick pin unless it's given for a consolation prize.

He did need some consolation prize, and anyway he persuaded me to let him have an aeroplane.

However, as a consolation prize, and as I was leaving, the headmaster gave me a second prize.

"A consolation prize; open it after you start," he whispered.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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