How To Use Also-ran In A Sentence
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The company has gone from aerospace also-ran to ranking in the global industry's top two.
In praise of … Sir John Rose | Editorial
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He will have to control his emotions if results do not come quickly and the sponsors refuse to back a serial winner turned also-ran.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sure, but try existing in the basement where there is little appreciation of the efforts of the back-markers and also-rans, some of whom train just as hard as the winners.
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Their privately-schooled counterparts had nudged them into the league of also-rans.
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World chess champion v primary school also-ran.
Times, Sunday Times
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There's little doubt that the world's most valuable CEO is Steve Jobs of Apple, who has turned an also-ran PC maker into the second-most-valuable company in the U.S. stock market.
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Don't decry their initial efforts, but in the end they were reduced to the role of also-rans in a two-horse race.
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The burnet moths, without the competitive fuss between elite athletes and panting also-rans, just seemed beautifully better at it.
Country diary
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This is what separates the champions from the also-rans.
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There's little doubt that the world's most valuable CEO is Steve Jobs of Apple, who has turned an also-ran PC maker into the second-most-valuable company in the U.S. stock market.
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It promises to find out which memories hit home and which fell by the wayside and to sort the champions from the also-rans with a final round of quick fire general knowledge.
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Both parties better start working together real soon or you are about to see what it's like to be reduced to an also-ran country as China passes us by in everything, from technology, to energy-efficiency, to healthcare.
House Democrats plan vote to admonish Wilson
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Where once great things were expected, now she is more also-ran than star turn.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ten months ago he was just an also-ran for the Democratic nomination.
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He revealed the secrets to making sure your runner beans are not also-rans: ‘Attention to detail, getting the right variety, good soil, and a lot of hard work.’
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We have a few champions and a multitude of also-rans; we have winners and losers; and we associate excellence with the former and mediocrity with the latter.
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He warrants only passing references, as if he were some also-ran in the race toward musical greatness.
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Schumacher joined Ferrari in 1996 and turned them from also-rans to unbeatable world champions within just four seasons, and could help them secure their sixth consecutive world title on Sunday.
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So what are the key factors that separate the million-dollar winners from the also-rans?
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The event is also lucrative for the also-rans, with even the eighth-placed horse earning £25,000.
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A hit could reinvigorate RIM, but a flop could reinforce concerns that the company—late to recognize the importance of offering touch screens and deep pool of apps—is in danger of becoming an also-ran.
RIM Tries to Push PlayBook Tablet
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If there is one person who holds the key to the future of the American Internet also-ran, it may be Mr. Son, the 53-year-old billionaire founder of Softbank.
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Even when he excelled at his favourite hobby of banger racing he was an also-ran, a man with a reputation of being shy, introverted and insignificant.
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Libya has gone from the world's most exciting oil-exploration hot spot in 2005 to another geologically, politically and fiscally risky also-ran," says Charles Gurdon , a North Africa expert at Menas Associates, a consultancy.
For West's Oil Firms, No Love Lost in Libya
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It condemns teams to being also-rans.
Times, Sunday Times
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At this point in the last cycle, candidates like Rudy Giuliani had raised $17 million, while even Democratic also-ran Bill Richardson brought in $7 million.
The Fundraising Gap
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Uncle Rico lives in a trailer and is stuck in the past, reliving his glory days as a football also-ran by videoing himself throwing balls.
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After retiring in 1954, he took over as manager at Ipswich Town turning the small town club from Division Three also-rans to Division One champions in 1962.
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This Saturday's game - and we can leave Italy out of any Six Nations equation - is a race for the also-rans, the contest for an elliptical wooden utensil, the championship's booby prize.
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Otherwise, the most talked about racing career since that of Lester Piggott has been peppered with a couple of Derby thirds, and lots of also-rans.
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Though it is VW's most popular model in the U.S., in Europe the Jetta has the stodgy image of an elderly person's car and is an also-ran to the better-selling Golf hatchback.
Volkswagen Aims at Fast Lane in U.S.
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However, two years is a very short time in which to turn a team of also-rans into possible World Champions.
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Returning to the non-medalling also-rans, the picture becomes even more confused.
Times, Sunday Times
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Actually, Martinned, what makes obscure events so amazing is if you watch long enough, you start to understand what separates a medal-winner from an also-ran.
The Volokh Conspiracy » My Curmudgeonly Take on the Olympics
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A year ago he was just an also-ran for the Democratic nomination.
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Uncle Rico lives in a trailer and is stuck in the past, reliving his glory days as a football also-ran by videoing himself throwing balls.
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I'm in 170th place and 44 minutes behind the winner: to call me an also-ran would be flattery.
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What they left behind was a scrap heap of also-rans and angry old guys.
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Armstrong has reduced the Tour into a race for also-rans.
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After it rid the world of leaping lawnmowers and exploding frying pans, it turned its sights on the also-rans of corporate reprehensibility.
Students Aren't Allowed To Touch Real Rocks
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A year ago he was just an also-ran for the Democratic nomination.
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The McLaren-Honda partnership, which had dominated F1 racing since 1988, was relegated to the role of also-rans.
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It could happen this time around, with four, five or six also-rans in each major league clutching at the last straw in the closing weeks.
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I can turn an also-ran into a contender, just by song selection and changing a few things.
The Sun
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There's little doubt that the world's most valuable CEO is Steve Jobs of Apple, who has turned an also-ran PC maker into the second-most-valuable company in the U.S. stock market.
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He warrants only passing references, as if he were some also-ran in the race toward musical greatness.
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A rare chance for an also-ran to grab some limelight.
Times, Sunday Times
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A decade ago, this team was an also-ran in Portuguese football, which has long been dominated by three teams—Porto, Benfica and Sporting are known as Os Tres Grandes Big three and have won all but two championships since 1934.
How Braga Climbed a Mountain
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His drive and dynamism over the past two seasons have taken London Irish from also-rans to contenders.
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All the cash in the bank is little compensation for another season playing also-ran.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was widely expected that Japan would end up an economic also-ran like that neighboring island chain, the Philippines.
Ian Fletcher: Japan, the Forgotten Protectionist Threat
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In the audio system, carbody electronics and instrument cluster sectors, the company has been strong in Europe but an also-ran in North America.
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We started imitating rather than innovating and wound up making faux American also-rans.
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On their way from playoff also-rans to just plain also rans, the Timberwolves have made an improbable detour into the NBA's elite.
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Looking back, I predict he will be seen as the President that changed America from being a pioneer to being an also-ran.
Did Obama have a good 2009?
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His career has coincided almost exactly with the rise of India from economic also-rans to superpower status.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Nationalists took heart, however, from the fact that Scotland's other smaller parties look destined to be also-rans in May's contest and insisted there is still all to play for.
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Once the undisputed premier provider of law enforcement handguns to America, the company found itself an also-ran in a few short years.
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Ten months ago he was just an also-ran for the Democratic nomination.
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But if Google wants its platform to be anything more than an also-ran, it needs to devote many more resources to the mobile universe.
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Every time, they would end up among the also-rans of the National Basketball Association.
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Throughout his 13-year career, Taylor was a marauding, intimidating presence who helped transform the Giants from also-rans into champions.
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Chris Rock's evolution from underachieving Saturday Night Live also-ran to incendiary social commentator is the stuff of comedy legend.
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It would have taken a match of some note to have lifted this last weekend of the Championship out of the also-ran trough.
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Instead of reloading for championship runs, the also-rans in the East are looking at the examples set by the Nets, Pistons and Celtics - that the road to revival in the East somehow is filled with shortcuts.
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If we go on like this we will finish as also-rans.
The Sun
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But what today looks like a masterstroke that has catapulted BarCap from being an also-ran on Wall Street into a credible competitor could easily have turned out disastrously.
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They will get a huge amount of grief overseas [if they come here] ... Is it really worth the risk of significant brand damage and regulatory and political scrutiny overseas to be an also-ran?
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Up until now, I've never been that impressed with her- a bit formulaic, a bit also-ran - but with her latest single, she has served up a stormer.