winner takes all

phrase

—used to say that the winner of a round will win the whole contest

Examples of winner takes all in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

In the waning moments of Friday’s practice, the coaches called for a single, winner takes all play. — Miami Herald, 1 Aug. 2026

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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