—used to say that the winner of a round will win the whole contest
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The series now moves to the winner takes all third game on Friday, June 6 at 8 pm EST on ESPN/ESPN+.—Allison Smith, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025 The winner takes all and the losers are driven to lose their humanity.—Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 10 May 2025 In Tennessee, the winner takes all when a candidate exceeds two-thirds of the vote.—Juan Buitrago, The Tennessean, 15 July 2024 Twenty-one are allocated by congressional district — three for each of the seven districts, and the winner takes all the delegates in each district.—Jennifer De Pinto, CBS News, 24 Feb. 2024 Good polling is accurate within a range, and that range’s importance is magnified in politics versus commercial applications because, in politics, the winner takes all.—Phil Wahba, Fortune, 26 May 2023 The advanced democracies with the angriest radical-right movements—the United States, the United Kingdom, and, to a lesser degree, France—are those in which the winner takes all.—Jonathan Schlefer, Foreign Affairs, 15 Mar. 2021
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