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Recent Examples of photo finish
The company offers its virtual photo finish, by contrast, as a visualization tool for spectators and commentators.
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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
Their photo finish was punctuated with wide smiles.
—Jay Stahl, USA Today, 25 Oct. 2025
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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
Their photo finish was punctuated with wide smiles.
—Jay Stahl, USA Today, 25 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for photo finish
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Run is a taut thriller that feels like an elevated Lifetime movie in all the right ways.—
Kevin Jacobsen,
Entertainment Weekly,
21 Feb. 2026
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Both the Canadians and Finns made it this far thanks to OT thrillers in the semi-finals, but for Team Canada, the win came at a cost.—
Matt Reigle OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
21 Feb. 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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Gantzel noted that late last year, the city of La Mesa rolled out temporary rubber speed humps on Date Avenue as part of a pilot program aiming to slow traffic and improve neighborhood safety.—
Noah Lyons,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 Feb. 2026
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In 1953, Asics, then still known as Onitsuka Tiger, issued the Marathon Tabi shoe, which was intended for full-length marathons and featured a canvas upper with a rubber sole.—
Riley Jones,
Footwear News,
19 Feb. 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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The sudden death of a 25-year-old Jacksonville rapper known as Lil Poppa is now under investigation in metro Atlanta.—
Christopher Harris,
CBS News,
19 Feb. 2026
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After news of Victoria's sudden death broke, Tommy Lee broke his silence in a statement shared with Fox News Digital.—
Tracy Wright,
FOXNews.com,
17 Feb. 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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Zeeshan Hafeez, a technology executive, is running an aggressive, albeit underfunded bid that might push the race into a runoff.—
Gromer Jeffers Jr,
Dallas Morning News,
23 Feb. 2026
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Abraham also ran for governor of Louisiana in 2019 but did not advance to a runoff.—
Jamie Gumbrecht,
CNN Money,
23 Feb. 2026
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“Photo finish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/photo%20finish. Accessed 24 Feb. 2026.
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