Sentence examples for a runner up for from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a runner up for" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to indicate someone or something that finished in second place in a competition or contest.
Example: "She was a runner up for the best actress award at the film festival."
Alternatives: "a second place finisher for" or "a finalist for".

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His novel Einstein's Dreams was an international best seller, has been translated into thirty languages, and was a runner up for the 1994 PEN New England/Boston Globe Winship Award.

AAM can be considered as a runner up for m 7 with a performance high in the upper 80%.

Fitbit debuted just this September at TechCrunch50 where it was a runner up for the top prize.

Arshdeep Kaur, Public Health Studies class of 2017, was named a runner up for the Children's Environmental Health Network's Youth Leadership Award.

GoodGuide was a favorite at this year's TechCrunch50 conference, generally regarded as a great idea and eventually finishing as a runner up for the event's top prize.

He was Mr Gay Newcastle 2007 and was a runner up for Mr Gay UK.

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Daniel Mendelsohn *94 was a runner-up for his book of essays Waiting for the Barbarians.

Their mother was Miss Tennessee in 1966, and a runner-up for Miss America.

Then his first book of nonfiction, "Broken Vessels," was a runner-up for a Pulitzer.

As well as winning the Guardian prize, it was a runner-up for the Carnegie medal.

Jonathan Galassi's translation of Giacomo Leopardi's "Canti" was a runner-up for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation.

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