Collocations withcontender
These are words often used in combination withcontender.
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championship contender
Despite the moderate success of team during these years, some alumni had grown accustomed to the programs' stature as a perennial national championship contender.
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leading contender
Our car industry, not least in my home country, is a leading contender in the fields of development, research, performance, the environment and safety.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
main contenders
The interest of the collection at hand is that the main contenders in this interpretative battlefield are present.
From theCambridge English Corpus
other contender
If such a situation occurred in later rounds the other contender simply won the match by default and advanced further.
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serious contender
This book is a serious contender to be the textbook of choice for the undergraduate students.
From theCambridge English Corpus
strong contender
There used to be a prize for gobbledegook, and subsection (3)(a) would be a strong contender for that prize.
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top contender
Seekonk is usually a top contender in their conference in almost all sports offered.
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