consolation prize

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They had booked the full tour of Parliament but turned up on the wrong day so as a consolation prize are going to watch MPs in action.

From BBC • Dec. 29, 2025

The consolation prize is the NFL Offensive Player of the Year, an award that has evolved into the Too Bad You’re Not a Quarterback trophy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 10, 2025

The Bruins went on to lose to Wisconsin in perhaps the first Rose Bowl seen as a consolation prize.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2024

For Wasserman Schultz, a onetime chair of the DNC herself, this party becoming her biggest stage of the night seemed not much of a consolation prize.

From Slate • Aug. 21, 2024

Eisenhower made it official on February 7, when he offered Stassen a consolation prize of a position elsewhere in the administration.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik