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Discover LudwigThe 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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