contest
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"An open-side flanker of extraordinary intelligence, courage and relentless competitiveness, he always seemed to arrive first where the contest was fiercest."
From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026
Los Angeles City Councilmember Traci Park was leading public interest attorney Faizah Malik after a hard-fought contest to represent the city’s coastal neighborhoods, according to early election returns Tuesday.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026
“Name That Tune” contest in a bar on Deck 5.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026
A candidate hoping to run for governor in the US state of Iowa has lost a closely watched primary contest, despite getting the backing of Donald Trump.
From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026
“A misery contest is not worth entering, for one only wins by losing,” as Agatha Swanburne once observed, and yet there are many who insist on holding such competitions, even to this very day.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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