The phrase "a true winner" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to someone who deserves to be given credit for their accomplishments. For example, "His courage and determination made him a true winner in everyone's eyes."
He's a great, great player, a true winner".
She went out in a style, a true winner".
He'd followed all the rules and, on the surface, was a true winner.
Doughy on the inside, crispy on the outside and not oversalted like some of its Big Apple brethren, this twisty treat, served in the "W" shape of the team's logo, above, is a true winner at the spanking new digs.
No amount of vote-counting or recounting can ever produce a "true" winner when the margin of victory falls well within the margin of error -- even with the best tabulation methods available.
Some pundits on sports radio have penciled him in as the Knicks' starting point guard next season, fans on Internet chat boards are saying he would be a lottery pick if he were in this year's draft, and the Sacramento Kings center, Vlade Divac, the president of Vujanic's Euro League team, recently called him "the steal of the draft" and a "great, great player, a true winner".
While the winner will get to open the postseason at home in a five-game division series against the Atlanta Braves, the loser will have to immediately travel to Milwaukee or Chicago to play a true winner-take-all game traditionally fraught with danger.
And that little means that awarding the victory to that candidate has a greater likelihood of picking the true winner than flipping a coin.
The energy secretary argued in an Op-Ed that the true winner was denied victory, an outcome that would have been different were he not straight and white.
Imprecise ownership records enable situations such as Dole Food to arise (where Wall Street's accounting systems created 33% more valid claims to Dole Food shares than there were Dole Food shares) and proxy voting inaccuracies are inevitable (a prominent Delaware attorney declared that it's not possible to verify the true winner of a proxy contest closer than 55-45%).
He beat Henrique Capriles Radonski, who refused to recognize the results and called for a recount, claiming that he was the true winner.
