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Recent Examples of photo finish
The Lamar-Drake exchange wraps a photo finish between the two rivals, whose feud ignited into one of the defining pop-culture storylines of 2024.
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Trevor Anderson, Billboard, 27 May 2025
Long before Ross Chastain became the first driver in 54 years to win a Cup Series race from the tail of the field at the Coca-Cola 600, Shane Van Gisbergen captured the inaugural Chicago Street Race in his debut, and Daniel Suárez got the best of the infamous three-wide photo finish at Atlanta.
—Shane Connuck, Charlotte Observer, 26 May 2025
Mystik Dan, a bay colt who last year’s race in a gut-churning and heart-pounding photo finish.
—Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 3 May 2025
From a drama standpoint, the 151st Kentucky Derby has a tough act to follow after last year’s three-way photo finish.
—Steve Kornacki, NBC news, 2 May 2025
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Trevor Anderson, Billboard, 27 May 2025
Long before Ross Chastain became the first driver in 54 years to win a Cup Series race from the tail of the field at the Coca-Cola 600, Shane Van Gisbergen captured the inaugural Chicago Street Race in his debut, and Daniel Suárez got the best of the infamous three-wide photo finish at Atlanta.
—Shane Connuck, Charlotte Observer, 26 May 2025
Mystik Dan, a bay colt who last year’s race in a gut-churning and heart-pounding photo finish.
—Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 3 May 2025
From a drama standpoint, the 151st Kentucky Derby has a tough act to follow after last year’s three-way photo finish.
—Steve Kornacki, NBC news, 2 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for photo finish
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Bateman's character, Vince Friedken, battles a gambling addiction in a trailer for the crime thriller, as Law's Jake Friedken celebrates the growing success of his buzzy establishment.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA Today,
10 Sep. 2025
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According to the prince, the couple has been tuning into the political thriller Hostage — and, surprisingly, the hit reality dating show Love Is Blind.—
Erin Hill,
People.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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Jack Ciattarelli and Sherrill are in a dead heat and the race will come down to who turns out their voters the best.—
Andrew Stanton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Sep. 2025
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Wednesday’s poll comes after an Emerson College survey released last week showed the incumbent senator and attorney general locked in a dead heat.—
Julia Manchester,
The Hill,
20 Aug. 2025
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And the Halloween-eve hair-raiser adds a cackling skeleton to a horror arcade of ghoulish news for EVs.—
Shawn Tully,
Fortune,
30 Oct. 2023
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The rubber sole, on the other hand, should help with traction and grip on rainy fall days when wet leaves turn walkways into slip-n-slides.—
Alyssa Grabinski,
PEOPLE,
7 Sep. 2025
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According to the San Diego Zoo, most pygmy hippos living in American zoos have ancestry that ties back to Billy, a pygmy given to President Calvin Coolidge in 1927 from American tire mogul Harvey Firestone, who owned a rubber plantation in Liberia.—
Natalie Davies,
Freep.com,
5 Sep. 2025
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Many stuffed, rubber, and nylon toys can be put in the washing machine—though toys stuffed with crinkles or squeakers could be affected by machine washing.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
29 July 2025
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The American Kennel Club explains that the soft, squeezable texture mimics the feel of small animals, while many plush toys include squeakers to imitate the sounds of distressed prey.—
Lucy Notarantonio,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 July 2025
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Around 20 to 30 percent of those with a chronic infection of the disease may experience heart issues, including heart failure—even sudden death.—
Jasmine Laws,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Sep. 2025
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His expertise in the Italian classics summons Nick into the orbit of a mafia don (Malkovich, playing his usual creepy villain and entirely behind a desk) and out of grief over the sudden death of his daughter and, hopefully, out of his spiritual complacency, too.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
3 Sep. 2025
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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
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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
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Farmers overapplying them in their fields can cause nitrogen-laden runoff that pollutes water and the air.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
10 Sep. 2025
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These factors, combined with Cincinnati’s temperamental plumbing, meant that during major storm events, the zoo’s runoff rainwater would flood the basements of area residents.—
Leyla Shokoohe,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
9 Sep. 2025
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