consolation prize
Example Sentences
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That’s the consolation prize for losing the entire U.S. government as a customer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 2026
If the FA Cup really is struggling to count as a consolation prize for Guardiola and City this season, you could have fooled everyone inside Vitality Stadium who watched him.
From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2025
Leftovers became less a consolation prize and more a creative challenge.
From Salon ● Nov. 30, 2024
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
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
