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By finishing runner-up in the Bahamas, Kim climbed six places to 21 in the world.

From BBC

I love how the four lead performers we cited — two winners, two runners-up — were women, while the four supporting actors were men.

Could he be the signing that enables them to take the four-time champions final step once more, after finishing as runners-up in four of the past six finals?

From BBC

But a surprising runner-up was tempeh, a traditional Indonesian food made from fermented soybeans, which retains much of the nutritional properties of soybeans without much processing or additives.

From Salon

The difference: Only one of those eight players was even 20% above league average: Royals shortstop Bobby Witt Jr., the runner-up to Aaron Judge as AL most valuable player.

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

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