"What's the plural of runner-up?"
The plural of runner-up is runners-up or runner-ups.
Definition of runner-up:
A person or team finishing in second place in a competition or contest.
Plural of Runner-up Example Sentences
- She was the runner-up in the national spelling bee.
- The team came in as the runner-up in the soccer tournament.
- He narrowly missed the first place and settled for the runner-up position.
- The runners-up received silver medals for their outstanding performance.
- These are the past champions and runners-up of the tennis tournament.
- After a fierce competition, the judges announced the names of the runners-up.
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Runner-ups vs. runner-ups
The graph shows the occurances of the plural of runner-up in written English since 1800 using Google's Ngram Viewer.
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