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contender::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | challenger, competition, competitor, 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 | contend |
Examples of contender
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He was the reason the Chiefs weren't yet seen as a legitimate playoff contender.
From the kansas.com
Though he's only ninth in the standings, he's also a legitimate title contender.
From the sportsillustrated.cnn.com
Power is instantly a contender for the series championship and for the Indy 500.
From the sportsillustrated.cnn.com
In his third year at Dunbar, Poynter thinks he's got a district title contender.
From the kentucky.com
An even tougher contender for IBM is SAS Institute, a specialist in data mining.
From the businessweek.com
He directed, co-wrote, produced and stars in the tale of a Democratic contender.
From the stltoday.com
It is hoped that she will return in 2012 as a strong medal contender for Zambia.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Edwards seems like a viable contender and may be the one to crack the top three.
From the delawareonline.com
At the time he said that Google looked like a more serious contender than Yahoo.
From the forbes.com
- Rival: the contestant you hope to defeat; "he had respect for his rivals"; "he wanted to know what the competition was doing"
- The International Contender is a single-handed high performance sailing dinghy, designed by Bob Miller, latterly known as Ben Lexcen, (Australia) in 1967 as a possible successor to the Finn dinghy for Olympic competition.
- A contender is a stock character found in stories and films depicting the development and triumph of an individual through athletic achievement. ...
- The Contender is a 1944 American film directed by Sam Newfield.
- The Contender (2000) is a political thriller starring Gary Oldman, Joan Allen, Jeff Bridges and Christian Slater. The film was directed by Rod Lurie and focuses on a fictional United States President (played by Bridges) and the events surrounding his appointment of a new Vice President (Allen).
- Procession of the Dead is a book written by Darren O'Shaughnessy (more commonly known by his pen-name Darren Shan) that was originally published in February 1999 in the UK under the name of Ayuamarca. It is the first book in The City Book Trilogy. ...
- The Contender is the debut novel by American author and sports journalist Robert Lipsyte. It was published in 1967.
- The Contender 3 is a reality television show based on the sport of boxing, but with an element of the (super middleweight) competitor's lives and relationships with each other within the show's living quarters, based in Pasadena, California. ...
- (The Contenders (band)) The Contenders were one of the most popular Norwegian roots rock bands of the early 1990s, playing more than 200 gigs and releasing three albums.
