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Sentence count:30Posted:2018-07-19Updated:2020-07-24
Similar words: second bestsecond bananasecondsecondlysecond handsecondarysecond-handsecondhandMeaning: adj. next to the best. adv. in second place second best. n. the competitor who finishes second. 
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1. I'm used to high quality and won't take second-best.
2. But it will be no more than second-best representation, and certainly not proportional representation.
3. We polished and wore our second-best boots.
4. First, Obamacare was very much a second-best plan, conditioned by perceived political realities.
5. "He"s the second-best center in the league already, all things considered.
6. Aristotle tried his utmost to avoid the Platonic route of drawing blueprints for the "perfect" as well as the "second-best" state.
7. No worse than the second-best player in the world, Henin is a wild card in this event because of lack of points.
8. Big banks are likely to have their second-best year ever in trading and investment banking — just behind last year, Bloomberg News reports.
9. It recognizes, however, the value of second-best solutions in a political environment where reforms of health care are likely to come slowly because they run up against many powerful vested interests.
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10. Now Brazilian stocks are the world's second-best performer after Russia, according to MSCI Barra.
11. And our second-best player had to quit the team because his grades were so bad.
12. When they have to choose between quality and price, quality usually comes off second-best.
13. I like live music: for me, records are definitely second-best.
14. He had got under her skin, and after half an hour she went home alone, not content with second-best.
15. He completed 192 of 303 throws for 3, 023 yards and 28 touchdowns, the second-best passing mark in the nation.
16. Mr. Wigley Does the Minister accept that board and lodging is a second-best provision for those families?
17. Her old scarf, purple rayon printed with black flowers, she would demote to second-best.
18. But the fact that it seemed politically necessary to accept a second-best solution for younger Americans is no reason to start dismantling the superior system we already have for those 65 and over.
19. If the 1992 trade for Mitch Richmond was the best transaction Sacramento ever made, dealing him (along with Otis Thorpe) to Washington for Chris Webber in '98 was the second-best.
20. Some of her friends began to break from her, think kusama is hoping his name has been put into the second-best.
21. In November we'll all act surprised that Pau is still clearly the league's second-best center.
22. The newspaper called her debut album Under the Surface the second-best album of the decade.
23. The RTS Index has jumped 48 percent this year, the second-best performer among the 92 global stock indexes tracked by Bloomberg.
24. At the very least, you have to say that there's a pretty good second-best case for the policy — and the WTO has reached a compromise allowing Ecuador to keep the measures in place at least for now.
25. Meanwhile, in our house, as the clamor of violence grew in the distance, we were busy polishing the forks and wiping clean the second-best glasses.
26. HSBC's investment banking division suffered a fall in profits year-on-year but still had its second-best six months in history and is now hiring 400 more staff, its head Stuart Gulliver said.
27. If and only if the host government could not offer efficient protection, it is the second-best choice for the government to limit the MNE's shareholding.
28. According to study on micro model of land market and the land supply market under Pareto second-best condition, farmers' economic losses might be offset by market practice.
29. Mobius said Templeton had raised its investment in companies on Thailand's stock market .SETI, Southeast Asia's second-best performing bourse, which has climbed 17 percent this year.
30. Interference with direct investment to improve the balance of payments is clearly a second-best policy. The best attack is through macroeconomic tools.
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