contender
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Appeared in the October 7, 2025, print edition as 'The Super Bowl Contender Turning Into a Disaster'.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 6, 2025
The jockey had also looked set to grind out victory on Serious Contender in the King George V Stakes, but 3-1 favourite Merchant swooped late to win.
From BBC • Jun. 19, 2025
Creating a Contender Tour that is financially sustainable and desirable to spectators around the world will still be a monumental challenge.
From BBC • Apr. 22, 2024
Contender or pretender: At halftime of Alabama’s game against Tennessee Saturday, it seemed like the Volunteers were about to win back-to-back games over the Crimson Tide and knock them out of the playoff chase.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2023
Using a gangplank hastily hammered together from wooden boards, refugees from Da Nang disembark from the US Military Sealift Command ship Pioneer Contender at Cam Ranh Bay 1975.
From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge
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