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It can be used to refer to someone or something that competes against another, often in a contest or competition. Example: "The new athlete emerged as a strong challenger for the championship title."
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Gavin began to find his range in the following round but his punches lacked punch and Brook finished the job off in the sixth, rocking the challenger with two thudding shots before pinning him against the ropes with a barrage of shots.
"I respect your choice, I wish my challenger a successful presidency," Komorowski told a gathering of supporters minutes after the exit poll announcement on Sunday.
And that's really the point of next month's UK general election, in which the current Conservative prime minister, David Cameron, and his Labour challenger, Ed Miliband, are battling for the top job: this year, those powers are diminished more than they have been for a century.
Conceding defeat, McInnes's Ukip challenger, businessman John Bickley, said he would have won given a few more days.
One positive has been the emergence of the so-called "challenger banks" over the past six years, Hannums says.
The two state-owned banks have the largest market shares, partly because the banking crisis led to a wave of takeovers with names such as Alliance & Leicester and Bradford & Bingley disappearing from the high street and "challenger bank" HBOS being rescued by Lloyds.
Ed Miliband had pledged to launch a competition investigation, and shadow chancellor Ed Balls said: "In the next parliament we need to see at least two new challenger banks and a market-share test to ensure the market stays competitive for the long term".
Nicolas Sarkozy billed it as the moment of truth, when his challenger François Hollande would explode under the president's superior debating skills.
He would have been defeated in two states by a challenger who is potentially a far more formidable foe than Newt Gingrich.
But, it was enough to keep it from being challenger Matt Bevin's Republican party – especially after his unforced errors and willingness to prize ideological purity over more pragmatic concerns (like the $2bn in pork McConnell brought home for agreeing to end the government shutdown).
NPR tried again: "Do you think it would be better for the party though if Hillary Clinton has a challenger in the primary?" Now, come on, Hillary Clinton has not declared.
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