FINALIST Synonyms: 48 Similar and Opposite Words

finalist

noun

Definition of finalist

as in champion

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Recent Examples of finalist This was the most affordable sipper finalist at $9 per red glass. — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Aug. 2026 Courtois had been a league champion in Belgium and Spain, as well as a Champions League finalist, by the time Chelsea brought him back from three consecutive loan seasons at Atletico Madrid at that same age in 2014. — Matt Pyzdrowski, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2026 Erica Vital-Lazare — poet, writer and former Legacy Awards finalist — will host the evening. — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 14 Aug. 2026 Lynch, a 2009 Mount Carmel graduate who starred at quarterback for the Caravan and went on to be a Heisman Trophy finalist at Northern Illinois, is 89-12 over eight seasons as the coach at his alma mater. — Steve Millar, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for finalist

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Noun

Fort Worth-area baseball prodigy Luke Esquivel has transferred from Grapevine to five-time state champion Southlake Carroll, his father told the Star-Telegram Wednesday.

— Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Aug. 2026
Pacino will portray businessman Vincenzo Vaccaro, a champion of Maserati family and an early investor in the auto dynasty.

— Abid Rahman, HollywoodReporter, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of champion

Noun

The first team preseason All-American is a reason why Indiana could get over the hump in winning the Joe Moore Award this season after checking in as a semifinalist last year.

— Tom Layberger, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026
Pacifica, a semifinalist last season in Division 10, took a 7-0 lead on the first play of the second quarter.

— Dan Albano, Oc Register, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of semifinalist

Noun

The 15-time majors champ pleaded not guilty to a DUI charge following his arrest.

— Anna Lazarus Caplan, PEOPLE, 26 Aug. 2026
Less than a month ago, Mark Walter was the undisputed king of Los Angeles sports as owner of the NBA’s marquee franchise Lakers and the MLB’s Dodgers, the reigning World Series champs.

— Erik Hayden, HollywoodReporter, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of champ

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Most of the early mining there consisted of placer mining — extracting minerals from sand and gravel in river beds — and mining declined during the Civil War.

— John Meyer, Denver Post, 26 July 2026
Its breakout star is Parker Schnabel, a thirty-one-year-old who runs a placer mine in the Yukon that brought in fifty-one million dollars last year.

— Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 4 May 2026

Definition of placer

Noun

Excelling with Reichard, paired with his punting upside as the former Ray Guy Award winner at Georgia, pushed him over the hump.

— Alec Lewis, New York Times, 31 Aug. 2026
The winners of the competition received passes to attend the Worldcon and spent some time at the IEEE booth.

— Thomas Coughlin, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026

Definition of winner

Noun

The plot of the original YouTube series began to follow the Skibidi Toilets, a conqueror race armed with futuristic weaponry and an intention to colonize the galaxy.

— Kyle MacNeill, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2026
One stronghold after another has fallen to the ruthless conqueror Nobunaga Oda—often celebrated as the first great unifier of Japan but here cast as a largely offscreen mega-villain.

— Justin Chang, New Yorker, 30 July 2026

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