PHOTO FINISH Synonyms: 40 Similar and Opposite Words

photo finish

noun

Definition of photo finish

as in thriller

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Recent Examples of photo finish From photo finishes to unlikely championships, here’s a look at five key storylines from Thursday and what’s ahead at the 106th CIF State Championships meet at Veterans Memorial Stadium in Clovis. — Gqlshare, Daily News, 22 May 2026 Waite placed second in the photo finish. — Buddy Collings, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2026 The race appears headed for a photo finish. — Clayton Davis, Variety, 6 Mar. 2026 In speedskating, the Netherlands’ Xandra Velzeboer won gold in the women’s 500-meter final, and her countryman Jens van ’t Wout won gold in the men’s 1,000 meters in a thrilling photo finish. — The Sports Desk, NBC news, 12 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for photo finish

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Rue Dangeau debuts Victorian Gothic thriller Séance starring Vivian Kerr with a one-week run at the Laemmle Royal in Los Angeles before widening to dates in San Francisco, Phoenix, Houston, Palm Springs and Sedona, with more cities to be announced.

— Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 2 Oct. 2026
This week, Netflix features the latest installment in a legendary anime series, a Spanish-language thriller stuffed with social commentary, and a Canadian horror about a mysterious beast stalking an isolated fishing village.

— K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of thriller

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For the first time in the history of photo finishes a triple dead heat for first place is recorded, at Willow’s Park, Victoria, British Columbia.

— Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2026
Even so, poll results point to a statistical dead heat between Flávio Bolsonaro and Lula.

— Filipe Mendonça, The Conversation, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of dead heat

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For pregame prep, there’s a new documentary about the 2007 hair-raiser.

— Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
In Hokum, the Cork native transports viewers to Ireland’s remote and possibly haunted Bilberry Woods Hotel alongside prickly American author Ohm Baumann (Adam Scott) for a good ol' fashioned hair-raiser of a ghost story.

— Megan McCluskey, Time, 4 May 2026

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After his sudden death in 1960, Olivetti began a slow decline and was eventually broken up and merged with a telecommunications company.

— E. Alex Jung, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2026
Plot summary Severance’s protagonist, Mark Scout (Adam Scott), is a former history professor who opted for the severance procedure to escape his intense grief after the sudden death of his wife, Gemma (Dichen Lachman).

— Jordana Rosenfeld, Encyclopedia Britannica, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of sudden death

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Directed by Nelicia Low, the suspenser follows a young fencer struggling with keeping his secret crush on a fellow fencer from his homophobic mother.

— Vivienne Chow, Variety, 17 May 2022
On the other hand, the story introduces fictional characters and elements that give it the air of a suspenser, exactly the sort for which Harris is so popular.

— Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Jan. 2022

Definition of suspenser

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In the race to replace Councilmember Bob Blumenfield in the west San Fernando Valley, business owner Tim Gaspar had collected $265,000 for the runoff campaign, compared with nearly $101,000 for political aide Barri Worth Girvan.

— David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026
Additionally, the project’s closed-loop water system prevents nutrients from washing into nearby rivers, where runoff from conventional cotton production can contribute to eutrophication.

— Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 24 Sep. 2026

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