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runner-up

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“I put on a dress and walked down, and ended up getting first runner-up,” she recalls.

Runner-Up: Pauline Etienne, Eden I could not take my eyes off this immensely talented Belgian actress.

You could, I suppose, broaden the definition of “runner-up” to include Romney.

Also on stage was runner-up Crystal Lee, a Chinese-American and Miss California 2013.

The book finished runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize in 1960, second to Cry the Beloved Country.

I won one once—runner-up in the fifth flight over at San Gabriel.

However, as a traitor, I'm not even a runner-up with your father.

To be runner-up two years in succession stimulates the desire for the first place.

But in the final, Herd defeated me on the last green, and so I had to be content with the prize given for runner-up.

Drummond would have been almost a certainty for a silver medal, and Stanning would probably have been a runner-up.

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

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