Sentence examples for second-best choices from inspiring English sources

Voters should be entitled to express positive preferences rather than make often bad guesses about second-best choices.

As a second-best choice, I'd like to put forward Rocky Anderson.

The president has made clear that he considers Mr Tusk a second-best choice, blaming a hostile media for depriving his brother of a second term.

The idea that urban living is a second-best choice is not one that strikes a chord with growing numbers of people under 40.

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In the next round, the rejected men propose to their second-best choice, and the women again retain or choose what they view as the best offer while rejecting the rest.

But neither can trust what the other will do, so logic dictates making the second-best choice.

In six of the patient vignettes there was only one correct answer, while in four there was also an additional second-best choice.

If P2 had started, she will end up with B and C (her two best choices), whereas P1 will get only his best and fourth-best choices, which is not envy-free.

Any other form of collaboration would be a second best choice.