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Recent Examples of photo finish
Showcase fresh summer stone fruit with a slab pie for a crowd that makes a photo finish with a lattice crust.
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Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 5 Feb. 2026
The company offers its virtual photo finish, by contrast, as a visualization tool for spectators and commentators.
—Maurizio Arseni, IEEE Spectrum, 4 Feb. 2026
Kenyan runners dominated the 54th annual event Sunday, with Benson Kipruto pulling off an unbelievable photo finish to win the men’s championship and Hellen Obiri taking home the women’s win and setting a course record in the process.
—Riley Jones, Footwear News, 2 Nov. 2025
Kenya’s Benson Kipruto crossed the finish line a split second in front of Alexander Mutiso in a photo finish.
—Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 2 Nov. 2025
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Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 5 Feb. 2026
The company offers its virtual photo finish, by contrast, as a visualization tool for spectators and commentators.
—Maurizio Arseni, IEEE Spectrum, 4 Feb. 2026
Kenyan runners dominated the 54th annual event Sunday, with Benson Kipruto pulling off an unbelievable photo finish to win the men’s championship and Hellen Obiri taking home the women’s win and setting a course record in the process.
—Riley Jones, Footwear News, 2 Nov. 2025
Kenya’s Benson Kipruto crossed the finish line a split second in front of Alexander Mutiso in a photo finish.
—Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 2 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for photo finish
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Razor blades and pointe shoes prove pretty lethal in Vicky Jewson’s bloody and blistered ballet thriller, which finds a dysfunctional ballerina troupe fighting for survival after a run-in with a deadly Hungarian mob.—
Lé Baltar,
IndieWire,
14 Mar. 2026
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Netflix’s refugee thriller His House and Jordan Peele’s Lovecraft Country showed early signs of her penchant for horror as a metaphor for racial oppression.—
Kemi Alemoru,
Glamour,
14 Mar. 2026
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As recently as Wednesday, Warsh and Hassett were in a near dead heat.—
Jeff Cox,
CNBC,
16 Jan. 2026
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That puts it in a dead heat with even more highly funded rival OpenAI, in a race to the public markets.—
Andrew Nusca,
Fortune,
3 Dec. 2025
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The streamer has a deep bench of horror films from all eras of cinema among its offerings, from influential classics like Nosferatu (1922) to newer hair-raisers like Possessor (2020), and all kinds of thrillers and chillers in between.—
Kevin Jacobsen,
Entertainment Weekly,
31 Jan. 2026
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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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Such a classic, simple go-to pair of shoes to match with casual wear and more elevated day dresses alike, these Vans offer an uncompromising approach and sturdy rubber sole that just hits for me.—
Alexandra Pereira,
Travel + Leisure,
12 Mar. 2026
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And poor Frank Oz is getting hand cramps, breaking his fingers to get expression out of this piece of rubber.—
Mike Ryan,
IndieWire,
12 Mar. 2026
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Their second loss was a quarterfinal squeaker that dashed their medal hopes.—
Andrew Knoll,
Oc Register,
23 Feb. 2026
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In the math of the midterms, a handful of statistics can signal the odds of a squeaker or a tsunami, of a Democratic sweep or the resilience of the Republican status quo.—
Susan Page,
USA Today,
16 Feb. 2026
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Another errant tee shot put Berger in the left rough during sudden death, preventing him from taking on the right-front pin.—
Edgar Thompson,
The Orlando Sentinel,
9 Mar. 2026
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Both teams were certainly dealing with exhaustion, but tireless Tia Chan, who starred in this game two years ago, turned in another clutch performance, making 57 saves, including 33 during 25 1/2 minutes of sudden death overtime, many of then spectacular.—
Dom Amore,
Hartford Courant,
8 Mar. 2026
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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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With a primary in March and the general election not until November, there is plenty of time to hold a runoff a month or two after the first primary.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
9 Mar. 2026
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Vikki Goodwin, also a state representative who’s headed to a runoff for lieutenant governor.—
Gromer Jeffers Jr,
Dallas Morning News,
9 Mar. 2026
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“Photo finish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/photo%20finish. Accessed 17 Mar. 2026.
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