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challenger::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | competition, competitor, contender, rival |
| Type of | contestant |
| Has types | champion, comer, enemy, favorite, favourite, finalist, foe, front-runner, king, queen, runner-up, scratch, second best, semifinalist, street fighter, tier, tilter, title-holder, champ, world-beater |
| Derivation | challenge |
Examples of challenger
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State Rep. Tom Campbell and his challenger, JT Wilcox, are both smart and savvy.
From the thenewstribune.com
Anheuser-Busch plays the role of defending champ, Miller the upstart challenger.
From the stltoday.com
Now Democrat DiNapoli trades hard shots with Republican challenger Harry Wilson.
From the newsday.com
His challenger for the GOP nomination, Liz Lauber, of Kirkwood, reported $2,600.
From the stltoday.com
Challenger Charles Mann, who teamed with Baker in the campaign, finishes fourth.
From the ocregister.com
Challenger Donald Ketai also won a seat, while Jeffrey DuComb failed in his bid.
From the freep.com
Bertarelli picked the fledgling CNEV as formal challenger after winning in 2007.
From the washingtonpost.com
His Golden Gate Yacht Club was adjudged the true challenger and CNEV was tossed.
From the washingtonpost.com
Fourth-ward incumbent Leslie LaCorte will face challenger Van Gregg in the fall.
From the dispatch.com
- Rival: the contestant you hope to defeat; "he had respect for his rivals"; "he wanted to know what the competition was doing"
- The Challenger was an extreme clipper ship built in East Boston in 1853. She sailed in the San Francisco trade, and later in the guano trade in Peru.
- Challenger is an ABC TV-movie based on the events surrounding the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. Its production was somewhat controversial as the families of the astronauts generally objected to it. ...
- Challenger is the second album by Swiss band Knut.
- Challenger was a wooden clipper ship built in 1852 by Richard & Henry Green, Blackwall Yard for Hugh Hamilton Lindsay, London.
- The Challenger is a fictional superhero in comic books published by Marvel Comics, beginning with the company's 1940s iteration as Timely Comics during the period fans and historians call the Golden Age of Comic Books.
- Challenger is a non-releasable Bald Eagle in the care of the non-profit American Eagle Foundation. He is the first Bald Eagle in history trained to free fly into major sporting events during the National Anthem.
- Challenger was an Australian children's game show that aired on the Nine Network in 1997 and 1998. The first host was Diarmid Heidenreich famous for playing Dougie the pizza delivery boy in the Pizza Hut commercials in the mid 1990's. ...
- Space Shuttle Challenger (NASA Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-099) was NASA's second Space Shuttle orbiter to be put into service, Columbia being the first. ...
